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CS 102
Huffman Coding:
An Application of Binary
Trees and Priority Queues
CS 102
Encoding and
Compression of Data
 Fax Machines
 ASCII
 Variations on ASCII
– min number of bits needed
– cost of savings
– patterns
– modifications
CS 102
Purpose of Huffman
Coding
 Proposed by Dr. David A.
Huffman in 1952
– “A Method for the Construction
of Minimum Redundancy Codes”
 Applicable to many forms of
data transmission
– Our example: text files
CS 102
The Basic Algorithm
 Huffman coding is a form of
statistical coding
 Not all characters occur with the
same frequency!
 Yet all characters are allocated
the same amount of space
– 1 char = 1 byte, be it e or x
CS 102
The Basic Algorithm
 Any savings in tailoring codes
to frequency of character?
 Code word lengths are no longer
fixed like ASCII.
 Code word lengths vary and will
be shorter for the more
frequently used characters.
CS 102
The (Real) Basic
Algorithm
1. Scan text to be compressed and tally
occurrence of all characters.
2. Sort or prioritize characters based on
number of occurrences in text.
3. Build Huffman code tree based on
prioritized list.
4. Perform a traversal of tree to determine
all code words.
5. Scan text again and create new file
using the Huffman codes.
CS 102
Building a Tree
Scan the original text
 Consider the following short
text:
Eerie eyes seen near lake.
 Count up the occurrences of all
characters in the text
CS 102
Building a Tree
Scan the original text
Eerie eyes seen near lake.
 What characters are present?
E e r i space
y s n a r l k .
CS 102
Building a Tree
Scan the original text
Eerie eyes seen near lake.
 What is the frequency of each
character in the text?
Char Freq. Char Freq. Char Freq.
E 1 y 1 k 1
e 8 s 2 . 1
r 2 n 2
i 1 a 2
space 4 l 1
CS 102
Building a Tree
Prioritize characters
 Create binary tree nodes with
character and frequency of
each character
 Place nodes in a priority
queue
– The lower the occurrence, the
higher the priority in the queue
CS 102
Building a Tree
Prioritize characters
 Uses binary tree nodes
public class HuffNode
{
public char myChar;
public int myFrequency;
public HuffNode myLeft, myRight;
}
priorityQueue myQueue;
CS 102
Building a Tree
 The queue after inserting all nodes
 Null Pointers are not shown
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CS 102
Building a Tree
 While priority queue contains two
or more nodes
– Create new node
– Dequeue node and make it left subtree
– Dequeue next node and make it right
subtree
– Frequency of new node equals sum of
frequency of left and right children
– Enqueue new node back into queue
CS 102
Building a Tree
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What is happening to the characters
with a low number of occurrences?
CS 102
Building a Tree
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Building a Tree
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Building a Tree
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Building a Tree
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•After
enqueueing
this node
there is only
one node left
in priority
queue.
CS 102
Building a Tree
Dequeue the single node
left in the queue.
This tree contains the
new code words for each
character.
Frequency of root node
should equal number of
characters in text.
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Eerie eyes seen near lake.  26 characters
CS 102
Encoding the File
Traverse Tree for Codes
 Perform a traversal
of the tree to
obtain new code
words
 Going left is a 0
going right is a 1
 code word is only
completed when a
leaf node is
reached
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CS 102
Encoding the File
Traverse Tree for Codes
Char Code
E 0000
i 0001
y 0010
l 0011
k 0100
. 0101
space 011
e 10
r 1100
s 1101
n 1110
a 1111
E
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CS 102
Encoding the File
 Rescan text and
encode file using
new code words
Eerie eyes seen near lake.
Char Code
E 0000
i 0001
y 0010
l 0011
k 0100
. 0101
space 011
e 10
r 1100
s 1101
n 1110
a 1111
0000101100000110011
1000101011011010011
1110101111110001100
1111110100100101
 Why is there no need
for a separator
character?
.
CS 102
Encoding the File
Results
 Have we made
things any
better?
 73 bits to encode
the text
 ASCII would take
8 * 26 = 208 bits
0000101100000110011
1000101011011010011
1110101111110001100
1111110100100101
If modified code used 4 bits per
character are needed. Total bits
4 * 26 = 104. Savings not as great.
CS 102
Decoding the File
 How does receiver know what the codes are?
 Tree constructed for each text file.
– Considers frequency for each file
– Big hit on compression, especially for smaller
files
 Tree predetermined
– based on statistical analysis of text files or
file types
 Data transmission is bit based versus byte
based
CS 102
Decoding the File
 Once receiver has
tree it scans
incoming bit stream
 0  go left
 1  go right
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101000110111101111
01111110000110101
CS 102
Summary
 Huffman coding is a technique used
to compress files for transmission
 Uses statistical coding
– more frequently used symbols have
shorter code words
 Works well for text and fax
transmissions
 An application that uses several
data structures

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  • 1. CS 102 Huffman Coding: An Application of Binary Trees and Priority Queues
  • 2. CS 102 Encoding and Compression of Data  Fax Machines  ASCII  Variations on ASCII – min number of bits needed – cost of savings – patterns – modifications
  • 3. CS 102 Purpose of Huffman Coding  Proposed by Dr. David A. Huffman in 1952 – “A Method for the Construction of Minimum Redundancy Codes”  Applicable to many forms of data transmission – Our example: text files
  • 4. CS 102 The Basic Algorithm  Huffman coding is a form of statistical coding  Not all characters occur with the same frequency!  Yet all characters are allocated the same amount of space – 1 char = 1 byte, be it e or x
  • 5. CS 102 The Basic Algorithm  Any savings in tailoring codes to frequency of character?  Code word lengths are no longer fixed like ASCII.  Code word lengths vary and will be shorter for the more frequently used characters.
  • 6. CS 102 The (Real) Basic Algorithm 1. Scan text to be compressed and tally occurrence of all characters. 2. Sort or prioritize characters based on number of occurrences in text. 3. Build Huffman code tree based on prioritized list. 4. Perform a traversal of tree to determine all code words. 5. Scan text again and create new file using the Huffman codes.
  • 7. CS 102 Building a Tree Scan the original text  Consider the following short text: Eerie eyes seen near lake.  Count up the occurrences of all characters in the text
  • 8. CS 102 Building a Tree Scan the original text Eerie eyes seen near lake.  What characters are present? E e r i space y s n a r l k .
  • 9. CS 102 Building a Tree Scan the original text Eerie eyes seen near lake.  What is the frequency of each character in the text? Char Freq. Char Freq. Char Freq. E 1 y 1 k 1 e 8 s 2 . 1 r 2 n 2 i 1 a 2 space 4 l 1
  • 10. CS 102 Building a Tree Prioritize characters  Create binary tree nodes with character and frequency of each character  Place nodes in a priority queue – The lower the occurrence, the higher the priority in the queue
  • 11. CS 102 Building a Tree Prioritize characters  Uses binary tree nodes public class HuffNode { public char myChar; public int myFrequency; public HuffNode myLeft, myRight; } priorityQueue myQueue;
  • 12. CS 102 Building a Tree  The queue after inserting all nodes  Null Pointers are not shown E 1 i 1 y 1 l 1 k 1 . 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8
  • 13. CS 102 Building a Tree  While priority queue contains two or more nodes – Create new node – Dequeue node and make it left subtree – Dequeue next node and make it right subtree – Frequency of new node equals sum of frequency of left and right children – Enqueue new node back into queue
  • 14. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 y 1 l 1 k 1 . 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8
  • 15. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 y 1 l 1 k 1 . 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2
  • 16. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 y 1 l 1 k 1 . 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2
  • 17. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 k 1 . 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2
  • 18. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 k 1 . 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2
  • 19. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2
  • 20. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 r 2 s 2 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2
  • 21. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4
  • 22. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 n 2 a 2 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4
  • 23. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4
  • 24. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4
  • 25. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4
  • 26. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4
  • 27. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6
  • 28. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 What is happening to the characters with a low number of occurrences?
  • 29. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8
  • 30. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8
  • 31. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10
  • 32. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10
  • 33. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16
  • 34. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16
  • 35. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16 26
  • 36. CS 102 Building a Tree E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16 26 •After enqueueing this node there is only one node left in priority queue.
  • 37. CS 102 Building a Tree Dequeue the single node left in the queue. This tree contains the new code words for each character. Frequency of root node should equal number of characters in text. E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16 26 Eerie eyes seen near lake.  26 characters
  • 38. CS 102 Encoding the File Traverse Tree for Codes  Perform a traversal of the tree to obtain new code words  Going left is a 0 going right is a 1  code word is only completed when a leaf node is reached E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16 26
  • 39. CS 102 Encoding the File Traverse Tree for Codes Char Code E 0000 i 0001 y 0010 l 0011 k 0100 . 0101 space 011 e 10 r 1100 s 1101 n 1110 a 1111 E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16 26
  • 40. CS 102 Encoding the File  Rescan text and encode file using new code words Eerie eyes seen near lake. Char Code E 0000 i 0001 y 0010 l 0011 k 0100 . 0101 space 011 e 10 r 1100 s 1101 n 1110 a 1111 0000101100000110011 1000101011011010011 1110101111110001100 1111110100100101  Why is there no need for a separator character? .
  • 41. CS 102 Encoding the File Results  Have we made things any better?  73 bits to encode the text  ASCII would take 8 * 26 = 208 bits 0000101100000110011 1000101011011010011 1110101111110001100 1111110100100101 If modified code used 4 bits per character are needed. Total bits 4 * 26 = 104. Savings not as great.
  • 42. CS 102 Decoding the File  How does receiver know what the codes are?  Tree constructed for each text file. – Considers frequency for each file – Big hit on compression, especially for smaller files  Tree predetermined – based on statistical analysis of text files or file types  Data transmission is bit based versus byte based
  • 43. CS 102 Decoding the File  Once receiver has tree it scans incoming bit stream  0  go left  1  go right E 1 i 1 sp 4 e 8 2 y 1 l 1 2 k 1 . 1 2 r 2 s 2 4 n 2 a 2 4 4 6 8 10 16 26 101000110111101111 01111110000110101
  • 44. CS 102 Summary  Huffman coding is a technique used to compress files for transmission  Uses statistical coding – more frequently used symbols have shorter code words  Works well for text and fax transmissions  An application that uses several data structures

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