Programmatic compression of images and sound

  • Authors:
  • Peter Nordin;Wolfgang Banzhaf

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • GECCO '96 Proceedings of the 1st annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The importance of digital data compression in the future media arena cannot be overestimated. A novel approach to data compression is built on Genetic Programming. This technique has been referred to as "programmatic compression". In this paper we apply a variant of programmatic compression to the compression of bitmap images and sampled digital sound. The work presented here constitutes the first successful result of genetic programming applied to compression of real full size images and sound. A compiling genetic programming system is used for efficiency reasons. Different related issues are discussed, such as the handling of very large fitness case sets.