Huffman coding
English
Etymology
Named after its inventor, David A. Huffman.
Noun
Huffman coding (countable and uncountable, plural Huffman codings)
- (computing theory) An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated probability of occurrence of each symbol (so that more frequent symbols take less space to store).
Hypernyms
- prefix coding
References
Huffman coding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia