Compression is a key enabling technology for the apparent convergence of digital data and media (speech, audio, image and video) communications over a single network (Internet) as well as digital storage of data and media (CD and DVD).This course covers the fundamentals of lossless data and lossy media compression technologies. It also presents overviews of the state-of-the-art digital data, speech, wideband audio, image, and video compression algorithms including JPEG, JPEG2000, MPEG and H.26x standards.