The ISO/CCITT standard for continuous-tone image compression

Author

Wallace, Gregory K.

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

27-30 Nov 1989

Firstpage

564

Abstract

The ISO/CCITT Joint Photographic Experts Group is in the process of developing an international standard for general-purpose, continuous-tone still-image compression. A brief history is presented as background to a summary of the past year´s progress, which was highlighted by definition of the overall structure of the proposed standard. This structure consists of a baseline system, a simple coding method sufficient for many applications, a set of extended system capabilities, which extend the baseline system to satisfy a broader range of applications, and an independent lossless method for applications needing that type of compression only

Keywords

bandwidth compression; encoding; picture processing; standards; ISO/CCITT Joint Photographic Experts Group; baseline system; coding method; continuous-tone still-image compression; extended system capabilities; independent lossless coding; international standard; Communication standards; Discrete cosine transforms; Gray-scale; History; ISO standards; Image coding; Image communication; Software algorithms; Standards development; Transform coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference and Exhibition 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond' (GLOBECOM), 1989. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64034

Filename

64034