Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of Industry Through the Communications Research Centre Canada

Frederic Mustiere

Martin Bouchard

Louis Thibault

Hossein Najaf-Zadeh

Hassan Lahdili

Ramin Pishehvar

The invention relates to compressing of sparse data sets contains sequences of data values and position information therefor. The position information may be in the form of position indices defining active positions of the data values in a sparse vector of length N. The position information is encoded into the data values by adjusting one or more of the data values within a pre-defined tolerance range, so that a pre-defined mapping function of the data values and their positions is close to a target value. In one embodiment, the mapping function is defined using a sub-set of N filler values which elements are used to fill empty positions in the input sparse data vector. At the decoder, the correct data positions are identified by searching though possible sub-sets of filler values.

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Frederic Mustiere