Multimedia Compression Question:

What are two types of adaptive quantization?
What do you mean by forward adaptive quantization? What is its significance?
Pour some light over optimum prefix codes.
What are the applications of arithmetic coding?
Give few applications of LZW coding scheme.
What does static dictionary means?
Pour some light over shannon-fano coding.
What do you understand by Half-Toning in context of Fax?
Name few universal Lossless Sound compression algorithms.
What do you mean by Adaptivity & Universality?