• DocumentCode
    924718
  • Title

    Balance of 0, 1 bits for Huffman and reversible variable-length coding

  • Author

    Lin, Jia-Yu ; Liu, Ying ; Yi, Ke-Chu

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defence Technol., Hunan, China
  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    359
  • Lastpage
    361
  • Abstract
    This letter proposes a novel algorithm to obtain a suboptimal solution for the balance of bit distribution after Huffman coding. The algorithm is simple, and can be embedded in the conventional Huffman coding process. In addition, the letter also discusses the bit-balance problem for reversible variable-length codes (RVLCs) based on Huffman coding. Analytical and experimental results suggest that the new algorithm is very useful in improving the 0/1 balance property for Huffman codes and RVLCs.
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; minimisation; statistical distributions; variable length codes; Huffman coding; bidirectionally decodable stream; bit distribution balancing; bit probability difference; bit-balance problem; reversible variable-length coding; Algorithm design and analysis; Audio coding; Data compression; Decoding; Error correction; Huffman coding; Image coding; Probability distribution; Statistics; Video coding;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0090-6778
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCOMM.2004.823568
  • Filename
    1273684