Critique of `Novel Design of Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression'


Alistair Moffat
Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia.


Status

IEE Trans. Computers and Digital Techniques, 144(6):394-396, November 1997.

Abstract

In this note we critique the paper `Novel Design of Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression' by J. Jiang (IEE Proc. Comput. Digit. Tech., Vol. 142, No. 6, November 1995, pages 419-424). A number of weaknesses of the proposed implementation are pointed out, and the method is contrasted with another recent technique for arithmetic coding.