Digital Image and Video Compression Techniques

Internet is very essential for any form of communication. The average net user and communicated through text, images and videos, of these the simplest and easiest is through text as it is quick as simple to use as sending text very little bandwidth. The problem with images and videos is that they require large bandwidth the send and receive. Therefore, there is a need to decrease the size of the image or video sent or received. So, we use technique called data compression techniques. The main aim of data compression is to reduce the amount of data needed to accurately represent an image, such that this image can be accurately transmitted or archived. Keywords– Image Compression, Image Compression Techniques, Lossless Compression Techniques and Lossy Compression Techniques.