A system is provided for electronic data compression by automated time-dependent compression algorithm. In particular, the system may track instances in which a particular dataset is used, copied, or accessed over time. For certain datasets (e.g., datasets that have not been accessed for a threshold amount of time), the system may use a time-based compression algorithm that progressively removes the least significant bits of such datasets as time passes. The compression of the datasets may continue until the system detects that further compression would cause the dataset to be unreadable or unrecoverable. In this way, the system may minimize the computing resources allocated to storing datasets that are not frequently accessed.

A communication system SYS includes a transmission apparatus 1 and a reception apparatus 2. The transmission apparatus includes: a conversion unit 111 for converting a bit stream Z having a bit length b into a bit stream Y that has w−1 (w is an integer equal to or larger than 2) bit 1 and that has a bit length n (n>b); a conversion unit 112 for converting the bit stream Y into a bit stream X having a bit length t (t<n); and a Neural Network 113 that has a t input node and that outputs a value relating to a feature of a transmission signal Tx when the bit stream X is inputted thereto. The reception apparatus includes: a Neural Network 212 that has a t output node and that outputs a numerical data stream U including t numerical data when a feature of the reception signal is inputted thereto; a conversion unit 213 for converting the numerical data stream U into a numerical data stream Y′ including n numerical data; and a generation unit 214 for generating a bit stream Z′ having the bit length b by performing, on the numerical data stream U, an inverse conversion of a conversion processing performed by the conversion unit 111.

A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: processing an unencoded data file to identify a plurality of file segments wherein the unencoded data file is a dataset for use with a long-range wireless communication platform; mapping each of the plurality of file segments to a portion of a dictionary file to generate a plurality of mappings, wherein each of the plurality of mappings includes a starting location and a length, thus generating a related encoded data file based, at least in part, upon the plurality of mappings; and transmitting the related encoded data file from a first location to a second location using the long-range wireless communication platform.

The present disclosure provides a data processing system and method. The method may include obtaining preliminary data. The method may also include generating first encoded data by compressing the preliminary data in a first encoding procedure. The method may further include determining whether a compression ratio of the first encoded data is below a compression threshold. The method may still further include generating second encoded data by compressing the preliminary data in a second encoding procedure in response to determining that the compression ratio of the first encoded data is below the compression threshold, wherein the first encoding procedure and the second encoding procedure are lossless compressions.

Examples described herein relate to a manner of determining a number of bits to encode compression data. Some examples include: compressing pixel data of a region of pixels in a frame; determining a number of bits associated with at least two partitions; utilizing the determined number of bits to encode residual values generated from the compressing the pixel data; and storing the encoded residual values. In some examples, the at least two partitions comprise a first partition and a second partition. Some examples include: encoding residuals in the first partition using a number of bits associated with the first partition and encoding residuals in the second partition using a number of bits associated with the second partition. Some examples include: determining a distribution of bins of residuals, wherein each different bin represents a number of bits used to encode a residual value and determining a midpoint of a total number of residuals as a bin that stores a residual that is approximately 50 percentile of the total number of residuals of the distribution.

A weight data compression method includes: generating a 4-bit data string of 4-bit data items each expressed as any one of nine 4-bit values, by dividing ternary weight data into data items each having 4 bits; and generating first compressed data including a first flag value string and a first non-zero value string by (0) generating the first flag value string by assigning one of 0 and 1 as a first flag value of a 1-bit flag to a 4-bit data item 0000 and assigning an other of 0 and 1 as a second flag value of the 1-bit flag to a 4-bit data item other than 0000 among the 4-bit data items in the 4-bit data string and (ii) generating the first non-zero value string by converting the 4-bit data item other than 0000 into a 3-bit data item having any one of eight 3-bit values.

A method of encoding input data includes dividing the input data into a plurality of data packets, an input packet of the plurality of data packets including a plurality of digits in a first base system, base-converting the input packet from the first base system to generate a base-converted packet including a plurality of converted digits in a second base system, the second base system having a base value lower than that of the first base system, and incrementing the converted digits to generate a coded packet for transmission through a communication channel.

A data-sparsity homogenizer includes a plurality of multiplexers and a controller. The plurality of multiplexers receives 2.sup.N bit streams of non-homogenous sparse data in which the non-homogenous sparse data includes non-zero value data clumped together. The plurality of multiplexers is arranged in 2.sup.N rows and N columns. Each input of a multiplexer in a first column receives a respective bit stream of the 2.sup.N bit streams of non-homogenized sparse data, and the multiplexers in a last column output 2.sup.N bit streams of sparse data that is more homogenous than the non-homogenous sparse data of the 2.sup.N bit streams. The controller controls the plurality of multiplexers so that the multiplexers in the last column output the 2.sup.N channels of bit streams of sparse data that is more homogeneous than the non-homogenous sparse data of the 2.sup.N bit streams.

An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: initialising weights of a target encoder based on a source encoder; initialising weights of a target discriminator associated with the target encoder such that the target discriminator is initialised to match a source discriminator associated with the source encoder; applying some of a target data set to the target encoder to generate target encoder outputs; applying the target encoder outputs to the target discriminator to generate a first local loss function output; training the target encoder to seek to increase the first local loss function output; training the target discriminator to seek to decrease the first local loss function output; and synchronising weights of the target discriminator and the source discriminator.

A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. A processing/filtering element utilizes occupancy map information and/or auxiliary patch information to determine relationships between patches in image frames and adjusts encoding/decoding and/or filtering or pre/post-processing parameters based on the determined relationships.