Adaptive compression is a type of data compression which changes compression algorithms based on the type of data being compressed.^[1]

References

^ "Adaptive compression". PC Magazine Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

Data compression methods

Entropy type	Adaptive coding Arithmetic Asymmetric numeral systems Golomb Huffman Adaptive Canonical Modified Range Shannon Shannon–Fano Shannon–Fano–Elias Tunstall Unary Universal Exp-Golomb Fibonacci Gamma Levenshtein
Dictionary type	Byte pair encoding Lempel–Ziv 842 Brotli Deflate LZ4 LZFSE LZJB LZMA LZO LZRW LZS LZSS LZW LZWL LZX Snappy Zstandard
Other types	BWT CTW Delta Incremental DMC DPCM Grammar Re-Pair Sequitur LDCT MTF PAQ PPM RLE

Transform type	Discrete cosine transform DCT MDCT DST FFT Wavelet Daubechies DWT SPIHT
Predictive type	DPCM ADPCM LPC ACELP CELP LAR LSP WLPC Motion Compensation Estimation Vector Psychoacoustic

Concepts	Bit rate ABR CBR VBR Companding Convolution Dynamic range Latency Nyquist–Shannon theorem Sampling Silence compression Sound quality Speech coding Sub-band coding
Codec parts	A-law μ-law DPCM ADPCM DM FT FFT LPC ACELP CELP LAR LSP WLPC MDCT Psychoacoustic model

Concepts	Chroma subsampling Coding tree unit Color space Compression artifact Image resolution Macroblock Pixel PSNR Quantization Standard test image Texture compression
Methods	Chain code DCT Deflate Fractal KLT LP RLE Wavelet Daubechies DWT EZW SPIHT

Concepts	Bit rate ABR CBR VBR Display resolution Frame Frame rate Frame types Interlace Video characteristics Video quality
Codec parts	DCT DPCM Deblocking filter Lapped transform Motion Compensation Estimation Vector Wavelet Daubechies DWT

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