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Review title: Not nearly good enough
Product review: I bought this book on e-bay for $1.13 and I want a refund. The word "introduction" in the title of the book is an understatement. Save yourself a dollar and lots of time by side stepping such encyclopedic treatments. The book lacks any rigor or insight. It is a bunch of hand waving arguments that at best gives a superficial treatment. If you have never heard of lossy vs lossless coding, Huffman vs arithmetic coding, scalar vs vector quantization, transform vs wavelet, etc. and want to have a layman understanding of these topics, this is your book. I feel sorry for students that use this book in any academic course.
