1. Huffman Tree Coding
Greedy Technique
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Dr. P. Subathra
Prof/ IT
KAMARAJ College of Engg. & Tech
(AUTONOMOUS)
Madurai
2. Huffman Tree Coding
• Encoding
– In computer technology, encoding is the process of putting a
sequence of characters into a special format for transmission
or storage purposes.
• Code Word
– The special format that represents each character is called as
the code word
• Fixed Length Encoding
– fixed-length encoding that assigns to each symbol a bit string
of the same length m
– Eg. ASCII codes
• Variable Length Encoding
– Variable-length encoding, which assigns codewords of
different lengths to different symbols
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3. Huffman Tree Coding
• Encoding
– In computer technology, encoding is the process of putting a
sequence of characters into a special format for transmission
or storage purposes.
• Code Word
– The special format that represents each character is called as
the code word
• Fixed Length Encoding
– fixed-length encoding that assigns to each symbol a bit string
of the same length m
– Eg. ASCII codes
• Variable Length Encoding
– Variable-length encoding, which assigns codewords of
different lengths to different symbols
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4. Huffman Tree Coding
• Encoding
– In computer technology, encoding is the process of putting a
sequence of characters into a special format for transmission
or storage purposes.
• Code Word
– The special format that represents each character is called as
the code word
• Fixed Length Encoding
– fixed-length encoding that assigns to each symbol a bit string
of the same length m
– Eg. ASCII codes
• Variable Length Encoding
– Variable-length encoding, which assigns codewords of
different lengths to different symbols
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7. Huffman Tree Coding
• Encoding
– In computer technology, encoding is the process of putting a
sequence of characters into a special format for transmission
or storage purposes.
• Code Word
– The special format that represents each character is called as
the code word
• Fixed Length Encoding
– fixed-length encoding that assigns to each symbol a bit string
of the same length m
– Eg. ASCII codes
• Variable Length Encoding
– Variable-length encoding, which assigns codewords of
different lengths to different symbols
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8. Huffman Tree Coding
• Variable-length encoding assigns codewords of different lengths to
different symbols
• Eg.
E 1
A 10
P 101
Q 1010
• How to decode: 110101 ?
• How can we tell how many bits of an encoded text represent the
first ?
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9. Huffman Tree Coding
• We can limit ourselves to the so-called prefix-free (or simply
prefix) codes.
• In a prefix code, no codeword is a prefix of a codeword of
another symbol.
• Eg.
E 1
A 01
P 100
Q 101
• How to decode: 10101101 ?
• 1 01 01 101 E A A Q
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10. Huffman Tree Coding
Consider the five-symbol alphabet { A, B, C, D, _ }
with the following occurrence frequencies in a text
made up of these symbols:
Create a Huffman Tree and Generate the Huffman
Code.
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