The focus of much recent work is to combine transform techniqes with quantization schemes in order to compress speech and images. It is clear from even this brief introduction that the theory of communication and that of quantization overlap significantly, and that many fundamental questions are of central interest to researchers in both fields. However, it was the sense of the organizers that there had been little crosspollination between the two communitites. The main goal of the workshop was to promote more interaction. The papers that appear in these Proceedings are, for the most part, accounts of these presentations.
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