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I have never quite understood what is so hard about quantization. Maybe I am missing something but it seems to be primarily a matter of division (for quantization) and multiplication (for dequantization, a.k.a. requantization).
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Mean removal is another one of those concepts– like differential coding— that sounds like it would be difficult to understand. It’s not.
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Differential coding explained:
1 + 1 = 2
Got that?
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I may as well start this series of articles off with what is perhaps the simplest multimedia compression technique of them all: run length encoding (RLE). The basic idea behind this concept is to encode information about runs of identical numbers rather than encode the numbers themselves.