Abel, Jürgen: Lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT), author of ABC.
Adler, Mark: Works at JPL. Information-ZIP, gzip, zlib, and PNG.
Battilana, Michael C.: Text compression, Lempel-Ziv coding, author of "The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective".
Bell, Timothy C.: Author of "Managing Gigabytes." CS department head at the University of Canterbury.
Chen, Tsuhan: Audio-visual interaction and collaboration, video coding and multimedia communication.
Chrysafis, Christos: Wavelet-based image compression. Student at USC.
Cover, Thomas: Coauthor of "Elements of Information Theory." Professor at Stanford.
Creusere, Charles: Perfect reconstruction filter banks, wavelets, video compression. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.
Delp, Edward J.: Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication Theory. Professor at Purdue.
Effros, Michelle: Assistant professor at CalTech. Communications, compression, information theory, image processing.
Florencio, Dinei: Perfect Reconstruction Non-Linear Filter Banks, the Motion Transform. Formerly a student at Georgia Tech.
Fowler, James E.: Assistant professor at Mississippi State. Image and video processing and coding.
Frey, Brendan J.: Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Source coding, computer vision, and interative decoding.
Gailly, Jean-loup: Author of gzip, zlib, coauthor of "The Data Compression Book. "
Gilchrist, Jeff: Author of the Archive Comparison Test (data compression benchmarks) and researcher in the area of cryptography and distributed computing.
Gray, Robert M.: Vector quantization for signal compression and classification.
Huffman, David A.: Huffman codes, digital signal processing, scene analysis. Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCSC.
Jégou, Hervé: IRISA, Rennes. Robust source coding, joint source/channel codes. Publications, resources, teaching.
Kieffer, John: Universal algorithms, multiresolution methods, wavelets and fractals, rate-distortion theory, and quantizer theory.
Langdon, Glen G., Jr.: Arithmetic coding. Professor of Computer Engineering at UCSC.
Moffat, Alistair: University of Melbourne. Interests include text, image, and index compression.
Moulin, Pierre: Image and video processing. Assistant Professor of ECE at UIUC.
Nelson, Mark: Coauthor of "The Data Compression Book." Addisoft Consulting, Inc.
Nosratinia, Aria: Joint Source-channel coding, image and video processing. Assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.
Nosratinia, Aria: (old student pages)
Ortega, Antonio: Digital Image and Video Communication Systems, Adaptive and Multiresolution Compression Techniques, and Joint Source-Channel Coding For Transmission Over Broadcast Channels and Packet Networks. Assistant Professor at USC.
Pearlman, William A.: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Research interests and publications.
Phong, Dario: Arithmetic, Huffman, and Lempel-Ziv entropy coding.
Ramchandran, Kannan: Image and video compression and modeling. Professor at Berkley.
Simoncelli, Eero: Computer vision, image processing, motion, and compression.
Storer, Jim: The Data Compression Conference.
Strutz, Tilo: University of Rostock, Signal and Image Processing group. Research interests: Data compression, Systematisation. Software, papers and textbook on Image Data Compression.
Taubman, David S.: At the University of New South Wales. Image and video compression and processing.
Uytterhoeven, Geert: Wavelets with integer lifting. Student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Verdu, Sergio: Rate-distortion theory, source coding. Professor at Princeton.
Vinokur, Alex: Huffman Coding (including n-ary Huffman Template Algorithm). At Tadiran Scopus.
Vitter, Jeff: Chair of CS department at Duke. Interests include dynamic Huffman codes, arithmetic coding, lossless image compression, and motion compensation for video coding.
Wiegand, Thomas: Rate-Distortion, affine video coding. Student at Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Williams, Ross N.: Variations on Lempen Ziv coding.
Witten, Ian H.: Coauthor of "Managing Gigabytes." Professor of CS at the University of Waikato.
Yew, Tham Jo: Image and video compression, motion estimation and compensation Student at the National Univ. of Singapore.
Zakhor, Avideh: Professor at Berkeley. Image and video compression.