期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (IJCSEA)
印刷版ISSN：2231-0088
电子版ISSN：2230-9616
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：4
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Compression is a technique to reduce the quantity of data without excessively reducing the quality of the multimedia data.The transition and storing of compressed multimedia data is much faster and more efficient than original uncompressed multimedia data. There are various techniques and standards for multimedia data compression, especially for image compression such as the JPEG and JPEG2000 standards. These standards consist of different functions such as color space conversion and entropy coding. Arithmetic and Huffman coding are normally used in the entropy coding phase. In this paper we try to answer the following question. Which entropy coding, arithmetic or Huffman, is more suitable compared to other from the compression ratio, performance, and implementation points of view? We have implemented and tested Huffman and arithmetic algorithms. Our implemented results show that compression ratio of arithmetic coding is better than Huffman coding, while the performance of the Huffman coding is higher than arithmetic coding. In addition, implementation of Huffman coding is much easier than the arithmetic coding.
