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Variable-length code
Known as:
Variable Length Coding
, Variable length code
, Variable length encoding
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In coding theory a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. Variable-length codes can allow sources to…
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Arithmetic coding
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Adaptive knot placement using a GMM-based continuous optimization algorithm in B-spline curve approximation
Xiuyang Zhao
,
Caiming Zhang
,
Bo Yang
,
Pingping Li
Comput. Aided Des.
2011
Corpus ID: 29126760
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Performance engineering of metropolitan area optical networks through impairment constraint routing
Ioannis Tomkos
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D. Vogiatzis
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C. M. Machuca
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I. Zacharopoulos
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A. Tzanakaki
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Emmanouel Varvarigos
IEEE Communications Magazine
2004
Corpus ID: 2491391
We demonstrate the use of impairment constraint routing for performance engineering of transparent metropolitan area optical…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
On constructing the Huffman-code-based reversible variable-length codes
Chien-Wu Tsai
,
Ja-Ling Wu
IEEE Transactions on Communications
2001
Corpus ID: 6967695
In this letter, we propose a generic and efficient algorithm that can construct both asymmetrical and symmetrical reversible…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Robust Internet video transmission based on scalable coding and unequal error protection
U. Horn
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Klaus Stuhlmüller
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M. Link
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B. Girod
Signal processing. Image communication
1999
Corpus ID: 13619404
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Joint source/channel coding for variable length codes
K. Sayood
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H. Otu
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Nejat Demir
Proceedings DCC '98 Data Compression Conference…
1998
Corpus ID: 1673838
When using entropy coding over a noisy channel it is customary to protect the highly vulnerable bitstream with an error…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Joint source-channel coding with variable length codes
V. Balakirsky
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on…
1997
Corpus ID: 122094887
We consider an information transmission scheme where a stream of messages is encoded using a variable length code, and the code…
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Error recovery for variable length codes
J. C. Maxted
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John P. Robinson
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1985
Corpus ID: 40900645
When an error occurs in the encoded bit stream produced by a variable length code, the decoder may lose synchronization. A state…
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
One dimensional modelling of failure in laminated plates by delamination buckling
Herzl C H A I
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Charles D Babcocks
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Wolfgang G I~nausss
1981
Corpus ID: 9612854
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Variable-length codes and the Fano metric
J. Massey
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1972
Corpus ID: 18369441
It is shown that the metric proposed originally by Fano for sequential decoding is precisely the required statistic for minimum…
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Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
On variable-length-to-block coding
F. Jelinek
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K. S. Schneider
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
1972
Corpus ID: 34483267
Variable-length-to-block codes are a generalization of run-length codes. A coding theorem is first proved. When the codes are…
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