Abstract
JPEG2000 is a relatively new image compression standard and it’s yet to find widespread acceptance. As a compression standard, JPEG2000 is much superior to JPEG; however, whether JPEG2000 will establish itself over JPEG remains to be seen. JPEG just compresses an image into as few bits as possible; JPEG2000 has a much broader view of Image compression. It brings in factors like support for lossless compression, higher transmission error resilience, and finer control over the size vs. quality tradeoff.

This white paper presents a developer’s perspective of the JPEG2000 standard. It addresses the problems one is likely to come across while trying to implement the standard. The paper basically documents the experiences gained while trying to implement Part-I of the JPEG2000 standard.

Author Manoj Pillai

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