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Everything about Codec
Device or software for encoding or decoding a digital data stream
A codec is a computer hardware or software component that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: CodecA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Single duplex DNA sequencing with CODEC detects mutations with high sensitivityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: iMovie3 &iDVDThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A new, fast, and efficient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical treesCited 3,893 times
- Go sideways: Audio file formatA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Glossary of digital audioA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
Noun A media coding format.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A new, fast, and efficient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees
SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Point Cloud Codec for Tele-Immersive Video
The adaptive multirate wideband speech codec (AMR-WB)
Towards practical and robust DNA-based data archiving using the yin–yang codec system
Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
Steganography Integration Into a Low-Bit Rate Speech Codec
A perceptually optimized 3-D subband codec for video communication over wireless channels
🆕 Influential since 2022
Single duplex DNA sequencing with CODEC detects mutations with high sensitivity
Partial Siamese With Multiscale Bi-Codec Networks for Remote Sensing Image Haze Removal
APCodec: A Neural Audio Codec With Parallel Amplitude and Phase Spectrum Encoding and Decoding
SpeechX: Neural Codec Language Model as a Versatile Speech Transformer
SLT-Net: A codec network for skin lesion segmentation
📚 Books worth reading
iMovie3 &iDVDDavid Pogue · 2003
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