How does Golomb-Rice Coding work?

In Golomb, or Rice, coding, you split a number N into two parts by dividing it by another number M and then code the integer result of that division in unary and the remainder in binary.

1. How do I decode a Golomb code?
2. What is Golomb coding in digital image processing?
3. What is Rice code in data compression?

How do I decode a Golomb code?

A kth-order Exp-Golomb code can be decoded by first reading and counting the leading 0 bits until 1 is reached. Let the number of counted 0's be N.

What is Golomb coding in digital image processing?

Golomb coding is a lossless data compression method using a family of data compression codes invented by Solomon W. Golomb in the 1960s.

What is Rice code in data compression?

The Rice algorithm exploits a set of variable- length codes to achieve compression. This is done using a two- stage compressor, namely, a pre-processing stage followed by an adaptive entropy coder. A function is generated based on the input data sets that can be used to find points anywhere along the curve.