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The JPEG still picture compression standard
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This paper is a revised version of an article by the same title and author which appeared in the April 1991 issue of Communications of the ACM. For the past few years, a joint ISO/CCITT committee known as JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) has been working to establish the first international compression standard for continuous-tone still images, both grayscale and color. JPEG’s proposed standard aims to be generic, to support a wide variety of applications for continuous-tone images. To meet the differing needs of many applications, the JPEG standard includes two basic compression methods, each with various modes of operation. A DCT-based method is specified for “lossy’ ’ compression, and a predictive method for “lossless’ ’ compression. JPEG features a simple lossy technique known as the Baseline method, a subset of the other DCT-based modes of operation. The Baseline method has been by far the most widely implemented JPEG method to date, and is sufficient in its own right for a large number of applications. This article provides an overview of the JPEG standard, and focuses in detail on the Baseline method. 1
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- Authors
- Wallace, G. K.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1991-04
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 30-44
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2040903332
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- 3,784
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 133.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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