With numerous examples and exercises, this book contains a detailed and rigorous introduction to the theory of block codes and moves on to more advanced topics like BCH codes, Goppa codes and Sudan's ...

Predictive coding — a theory of how the visual system works that focuses on comparing incoming information with an internal prediction — has been around for decades. Experimental explorations of this ...

Information theory provides a quantitative measure of the information contained in message signals and allows us to determine the capacity of a communication system to transfer this information from ...

Coding, information theory and compression provide a unified framework for quantifying, transmitting and summarising data. At its heart lies the concept of entropy, which measures the average ...