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- What is arithmetic coding explain with an example?
- What is arithmetic coding used for?
- Why is arithmetic coding better than Huffman coding?
- How tag is generated in arithmetic coding?
What is arithmetic coding explain with an example?
An arithmetic coding example assuming a fixed probability distribution of three symbols "A", "B", and "C". Probability of "A" is 50%, probability of "B" is 33% and probability of "C" is 17%. Furthermore, we assume that the recursion depth is known in each step.
What is arithmetic coding used for?
Arithmetic coding is a popular compression algorithm after Huffman coding and it is particularly useful for a relatively small and skewed alphabet. We only discuss the static approach here. In theory, an arithmetic coding algorithm encodes an entire file as a sequence of symbols into a single decimal number.
Why is arithmetic coding better than Huffman coding?
Arithmetic algorithm yields much more compression ratio than Huffman algorithm while Huffman coding needs less execution time than the arithmetic coding.
How tag is generated in arithmetic coding?
In arithmetic coding a unique identifier or tag is generated for the sequence to be encoded. This tag corresponds to a binary fraction, which becomes the binary code for the sequence. In practice the generation of the tag and the binary code are the same process.
