Hi, Today (in one hour) we have Steven Pigeon giving us a brief primer on compression methods. Be there. Time/Date: 14h00 August 25th Location: LISA Lab (AA3256) Title: Compression 101: A brief Introduction The goal of the talk is to introduce the goals of data compression and its basic concepts. We will illustrate the concepts using the different stages of a typical codec (for CODer/DECorder pair) such as transformation, analysis, quantization and entropy coding. (Snacks provided by Steven, yay! :-)) Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron C. Courville Département d’Informatique et de recherche opérationnelle Université de Montréal email:Aaron.Courville@gmail.com -- Aaron C. Courville Département d’Informatique et de recherche opérationnelle Université de Montréal email:Aaron.Courville@gmail.com