This document discusses data compression techniques including lossless compression methods like run-length encoding and statistical encoding like Huffman encoding. It explains that compression aims to reduce the size of information to be stored or transmitted by removing redundancy. The key points covered are:
- Compression principles like entropy encoding and Huffman encoding which assigns variable length codes based on symbol probabilities.
- The Huffman algorithm involves constructing a binary tree from symbol frequencies and assigning codes based on paths from the root with '0' for left branches and '1' for right.
- Huffman coding satisfies the prefix property that no code is a prefix of another, allowing unique decoding.