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Chapter 9

A very easy to use JPEG demo, written in Java, is available for you to try at

  • http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/365/li/interactive-jpeg/Ijpeg.html
  • The original JPEG standard can be found at

  • http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf
  • A useful JPEG FAQ can be found at

  • http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/

  • and an implementation of JPEG by the Independent JPEG Group can be downloaded from
  • http://www.ijg.org/
  • A simple explanation of context based image compression can be found at

  • http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/ageenko/research/ic/jbig.html
  • The original research papers for the LOCO-I algorithm can be downloaded from HP's website at

  • http://www.hpl.hp.com/loco/
  • Many JPEG2000 related links can be found at

  • http://www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.htm
  • Thumbnails for test images used for JPEG/JPEG2000 performance evaluation, (a):\ Natural images. (b):\ Computer generated images. (c):\ Medical images, are shown here:

  • testimages.bmp
  • A Java implementation of JPEG2000 can be downloaded from

  • http://jj2000.epfl.ch/
  • A C implementation of the JPEG2000 encoder and decoder can be downloaded from

  • http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/
  • The JPEG-LS public domain source code can be downloaded from

  • http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/research/jpeg/jpeg_ls/jpegls.html
  • An introduction to JBIG and be found at

  • http://www.jpeg.org/jbighomepage.html
  • Documentation and source code for JBIG and JBIG2 can be found at

  • http://datacompression.info/JBIG.shtml
  • A good resource for data compression compiled by Mark Nelson that includes libraries, documentations, and source code for JPEG, JPEG-2000, JPEG-LS, JBIG, etc. can be found at

  • http://www.datacompression.info


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