Data Compression Conference: 28-30 March 2000. Snowbird, Utah

The proceedings of the March 2000 conference consists of 52 papers, one invited presentation on JPEG-2000, and 39 posters. Paper topics include joint source/channel coding using arithmetic codes, implementing the context tree weighting method for text compression, the performance of BWT sorting algorithms, optimal subtractive dither for near-lossless compression, modifications of uniform quantization applied in wavelet coder, rate distortion behavior of threshold-based nonlinear approximations, and robust video coding for packet networks with feedback. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland