Title :
The ISO/CCITT standard for continuous-tone image compression
Author :
Wallace, Gregory K.
Author_Institution :
Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference and Exhibition 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond' (GLOBECOM), 1989. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64034
