Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)

Re:Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) by rdtsc on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:13PM (#11772709)

I first encountered his name when learning data encoding which used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_coding.

One thing that struck me there was the use of unary coding, which I thought was pretty cool. In my case I was writing a JPEG-LS decoder. Looking at the wiki, I see it is also used in some audio codecs as well.

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Re:Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) by theoh on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:24PM (#11772765)

Also neat (and a prefix code) is Fibonacci coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_coding

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Re:Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) by userbinator on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:58PM (#11774692)

I learned of him through a similar path, although it was a slightly different encoding, the one used by H.264: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential-Golomb_coding

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