This page contains information of books and websites that I used or know of during the development of CamStream. This list is far from complete, nor do I specifically endorse or recommend these books/sites. But if you're looking for detailed information these are good starters. You can also look at your local university library for similar books.
"Advances in Image Communication"; T.A. Ramstad, S.O. Aase,
J.H.Husoy
Volume 6: Subband Compression of Images: Principles and Examples
Elsevier; ISBN 0 444 89431 4
"Practical DSP Modeling, Techniques and Programming in C";
Don Morgan
John Wesley & Sons, Inc.; ISBN 0 471 00606 8
NB: if any of these links appear to be broken, please mail me.
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentral/365/li/index.html
A course in MultiMedia systems: good overview of audio & video
coding and various compression techniques for A/V.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/pubs/DC-Sec4.html
http://xfactor.wpi.edu/Works/MAmiji/thesis/node46.html
Some links about Adaptive Huffman coding.