A Review of Data Compression Technique

With the growth of technology and the entrance into the Digital Age, the world has found itself amid a vast amount of information. Dealing with such enormous amount of information can often present difficulties. Digital information must be stored and retrieved in an efficient manner, in order for it to be put to practical use. Compression is one way to deal with this problem. Images require substantial storage and transmission resources, thus image compression is advantageous to reduce these requirements. Image compression is a key technology in transmission and storage of digital images because of vast data associated with them. This paper addresses about various image compression techniques. There are two types of image compression: lossless and lossy