Incompressibility and Lossless Data Compression: An Approach by Pattern Discovery

We present a novel method for lossless data compression that aims to get a different performance to those proposed in the last decades to tackle the underlying volume of data of the Information and Multimedia Ages. These latter methods are called entropic or classic because they are based on the Cla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Oscar Herrera Alcántara, Francisco Javier Zaragoza Martínez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:México
Institución:Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Repositorio:Redalyc-UAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:61513250005
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61513250005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computación
Clustering
Data Compression
Incompressibility
Pattern Discovery
Information Theory
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Sumario:We present a novel method for lossless data compression that aims to get a different performance to those proposed in the last decades to tackle the underlying volume of data of the Information and Multimedia Ages. These latter methods are called entropic or classic because they are based on the Classic Information Theory of Claude E. Shannon and include Huffman [8], Arithmetic [14], Lempel-Ziv [15], Burrows Wheeler (BWT) [4], Move To Front (MTF) [3] and Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) [5] techniques. We review the Incompressibility Theorem and its relation with classic methods and our method based on discovering symbol patterns called metasymbols. Experimental results allow us to propose metasymbolic compression as a tool for multimedia compression, sequence analysis and unsupervised clustering.