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Source coding is ubiquitous in the modern world: essentially all digital communication devices make use of it. This tutorial aims to provide insight in the principles of source coding. Topics that will be discussed include asymptotic equipartition, the source coding theorem, the rate-distortion theorem, the test channel, reverse waterfilling, high-rate quantization, distribution preserving quantization, transform coding, and predictive coding. The tutorial will end with a brief discussion of the architectures of modern speech, audio, and video coding schemes and their motivation.
Bastiaan Kleijn is Professor at Victoria University of Wellington since 2010.
He is also Professor at KTH in Stockholm and Delft University of Technology. He he was
Head of the Sound and Image Processing Laboratory at KTH until 2010. Before joining KTH
in 1996, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Research) on speech processing. He was a
founder of Global IP Solutions, which developed voice and video processing engines for,
among others, Skype, Yahoo, and Google. It was bought by Google in 2010. Kleijn holds a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and a Ph.D. in Soil
Science from the University of California. He is an IEEE Fellow.