The course aims to introduce and to understand the physical significance of fundamental concepts of information theory, and the course aims to provide a deep understanding of lossless and loosely data compression methods in both theoretical and practical strategies with ability to research using modern approaches in this field.

Introduction to data compression and coding theory, fundamental coding strategies (Block, Arithmetic, Huffman, Dictionary based coding), scalar and vector quantization, predictive coding, transformations, subband and wavelet transform based coding, overview of image, audio, video and computer graphics compression methods.