Prerequisites: EE 215 (may be taken concurrently)
Description: Covers the fundamental theory and tools for designing data and signal compression systems. Topics include Electrical Engineering lossless coding, scalar quantization, predictive and transform coding techniques, vector quantization, and the general trade-off between the reproduction signal quality and the bit-rate of the digital representation. Provides a foundation for further study and research in speech, audio, image, and video compression.