Paper Title:

THE JPEG STILL PICTURE COMPRESSION STANDARD

Author:

Gregory K. Wallace

Main Point(s):

The paper gives an overview of the JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) standard, which includes DCT-Based JPEG "lossy" compression and a predictive method for "lossless" compression. It focuses in detail on the Baseline method which is a easy to be implemented and sufficient for many applications.

Possible Use(s):

It is a nice introduction to JPEG standard. It is also useful to those who want to implement JPEG codec.

Extensions:

Although JPEG tried to cover various applications. It would be helpful to users if they could set up parameters for their own applications.

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