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Image Format Basics

This talk will introduce the topics of graphics files and the various formats.

The main formats discussed are bitmap (PBM, PPM, PGM), GIF, JPEG, and a little on TIFF.

The compression techniques discussed are Run-Length Encoding, Huffman Coding, and Dictionary Systems.

References: John Levine, ³Programming for Graphics Files in C and C++², John Wiley & Sons, 1994. James Murray and William vanRyper, Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, Second Edition, O¹Reilly, 1996.

Table of Contents for Image Format Basics

001 Image Format Basics
002 Image Format Basics
003 Graphics Data Files
004 Color Models:  RGB
005 Color Models:  CMY(K)
006 Color Models:  Luminence/Chrominance Models - HSV and YUV
007 Color Maps
008 Bitmap File Formats
009 Header Formats
010 Data Compression Techniques
011 Run-Length Encoding
012 Huffman Coding
013 LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch) Compression
014 JPEG Compression
015 Graphics File Formats:  PBM, PGM, PNM, PPM and the pbmplus 
    programs
016 Graphics File Formats:  GIF
017 Graphics File Formats:  JPEG
018 Graphics File Formats:  TIFF

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