JPEG 2000 image compression fundamentals, standards, and practices

Author: Tao Buman
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: JPEG2000 is the new version of the international standard developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). The original JPEG image compression standard has been applied in a wide range of fields, including the Internet, digital cameras, printers, and scanning devices. Image compression plays a core role in modern multimedia communication, and compressed images are proven to represent the dominant resource in today's Internet traffic. In many of its application areas, JPEG2000 can serve as the successor to JPEG. Its emergence primarily stems from the need for compressed image representation that provides the increasing features required by modern applications while also delivering superior compression performance. This book is divided into four parts to meet the needs of different readers. Part 1 provides comprehensive and new background knowledge on the fundamentals of image compression. Part 2 includes a complete description of the JPEG2000 standard. Parts 1 and 2 complement each other, explaining and illustrating the JPEG2000 standard and modern image compression techniques. Part 3 focuses on the implementation and development of the JPEG2000 standard, including guidelines, recommendations, and analyses for application-oriented software and hardware. Part 4 discusses related JPEG and JPEG-LS standards and supplements some application examples that were introduced in earlier parts but are not included in the JPEG2000 standard. This book can serve as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate-level courses on image compression and is a reference book for professional engineers and scholars in fields such as communications, image processing, signal processing, information theory, and multimedia. It is also suitable for engineers and technicians involved in developing software and hardware solutions for multimedia, the Internet, and medical imaging.