datacompression_info - jpeg-2000.htm

The J2000 codec was written in an effort to produce the cleanest and simplest implementation possibl

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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1575&amp;WIS Technologies, Inc."><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/2.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">WIS Technologies sells software (both 
      standalone and plugins) to perform various types of compression, including 
      wavelet and DCT based lossly algorithms. In addition, they seem to be 
      moving into the hardware business with the announcement of an ASIC 
      JPEG2000 codec. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.leadtools.com/home2/vertmkts/ltjpeg2k.htm">LEADTOOLS 
      JPEG2000 Plugin </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1839&amp;LEADTOOLS JPEG2000 Plugin"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">LEADTOOLS is now supporting JPEG2000 in their 
      toolkits by means of this JPEG2000 plugin. Supports both file and stream 
      formats, plus many additional features. Download of sample available. 
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A href="http://www.amux.com/">AMC-JPEG2000 
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?3002&amp;AMC-JPEG2000"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">This product converts your photos to JPEG-2000 
      format to speed up the process of sending them by mail. And how do your 
      friends view these photos when they get them? Well, it appears that AMC 
      will be happy to give them a free JPEG 2000 viewer. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://public.migrator2000.org/downloads.xalter">SouthDowns </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2759&amp;SouthDowns"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">SouthDowns is a set of Perl scripts for the 
      creation of JPEG 2000 files from JPEG 2000 codestreams. If you're 
      interested in the format used by the standard, this might be an easy way 
      to experiment with it. The sample program appears to insert some metadata 
      into the image file. <BR>Warning: this release has no release information 
      and no licensing information! </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A href="http://j2000.org/index.html">PhotoNav 
      </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2694&amp;PhotoNav"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">PhotoNav is a commercial optimized mega-image 
      navigator system based on JPEG-2000. An alpha version of the PhotoNav 
      client is now available for Palm handhelds. This software lets you browse 
      JPEG-2000 images on your PDA. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/projlinks.html">JPEG 2000 Project 
      Related Links </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2588&amp;JPEG 2000 Project Related Links"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Links to several projects that are working with 
      JPEG 2000 technology. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Companies/Organizations</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A href="http://www.wischip.com/">WIS 
      Technologies, Inc. </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1575&amp;WIS Technologies, Inc."><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/2.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">WIS Technologies sells software (both 
      standalone and plugins) to perform various types of compression, including 
      wavelet and DCT based lossly algorithms. In addition, they seem to be 
      moving into the hardware business with the announcement of an ASIC 
      JPEG2000 codec. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://public.migrator2000.org/main.xalter">Migrator 2000 </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2725&amp;Migrator 2000"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">This group says that they will <I>develop, 
      demonstrate and disseminate tools for the JPEG 2000 digital imaging 
      standard</I>. At this time that seems to include a couple of demonstration 
      programs, some text and web pages, test images, and a link to a Perl 
      package. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Files</H2></TD></TR>
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      href="http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~gormish/jpeg2000conformance/">JPEG 2000 
      Part 4 Conformance Test Files </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2728&amp;JPEG 2000 Part 4 Conformance Test Files"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Part 4 of the standard relates to conformance. 
      The files on this site are used in conformance testing. This web site 
      implies that this part of the standard will soon be available for free, 
      but as of March, 2003, this is not the case. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/testlinks.html">JPEG 2000 Code and Test 
      Data </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2589&amp;JPEG 2000 Code and Test Data"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">This page contains links to sample code and 
      test data for implementing the JPEG 2000 standard. Looking for conformance 
      files? This is the place. Looking for working implementations? You can 
      find several here. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>French</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.agfanet.com/en/cafe/photocourse/digicourse/cont_index.php3">Digital 
      Photography from Agfa </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2699&amp;Digital Photography from Agfa"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">A complete short course on digital photography 
      from Agfa. It shows up here because Lesson 6 is on <I>The Right 
      Compression</I>. You get a discussion of various formats, including GIF, 
      JPEG, JPEG2K, and PNG. Best of all, it looks like the entire page is 
      available in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>German</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/JPEG2000Dropper.html">JPEG 
      2000 Dropper </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2966&amp;JPEG 2000 Dropper"><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">A free Max OS X program that converts your 
      images to JPEG 2000. </TD></TR>
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      href="http://www.algovisionluratech.com/">Luratech </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1821&amp;Luratech"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Luratech has plugins and an SDK for both their 
      proprietary format and JPEG2000. Products come in a dizzying array of 
      options, ActiveX controls, C-SDK, Java-SDK, plugins for PhotoShop or 
      browsers. Note that some of their products can now be downloaded as 
      freeward! <BR>Note: What was once LuraTech is now Algo Vision LuraTech. 
      <BR>Reader Tom H. says: <I>Luratech is the fastest licensable SDK out 
      there right now</I> </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.agfanet.com/en/cafe/photocourse/digicourse/cont_index.php3">Digital 
      Photography from Agfa </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2699&amp;Digital Photography from Agfa"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">A complete short course on digital photography 
      from Agfa. It shows up here because Lesson 6 is on <I>The Right 
      Compression</I>. You get a discussion of various formats, including GIF, 
      JPEG, JPEG2K, and PNG. Best of all, it looks like the entire page is 
      available in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Hardware</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.dspworx.com/cheetah.htm">DSPWorx Cheetah - DSW2000S Chip 
      </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2474&amp;DSPWorx Cheetah - DSW2000S Chip"><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">This System-on-chip provides you with all the 
      building blocks you need to perform several different kinds of compression 
      and decompression, including MPEG, JPEG, and JPEG2000. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/2001/01013.htm">TI releases DSP 
      Developer Support for JPEG2000 </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1776&amp;TI releases DSP Developer Support for JPEG2000"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Texas Instruments announced the release of a 
      DSP based Image Developer's Kit, with support coming for JPEG2000, MPEG-4, 
      and other standards. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A href="http://www.wischip.com/">WIS 
      Technologies, Inc. </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1575&amp;WIS Technologies, Inc."><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A><BR><IMG 
      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/2.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">WIS Technologies sells software (both 
      standalone and plugins) to perform various types of compression, including 
      wavelet and DCT based lossly algorithms. In addition, they seem to be 
      moving into the hardware business with the announcement of an ASIC 
      JPEG2000 codec. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://products.analog.com/products/info.asp?product=ADV%2DJP2000">JPEG2000 
      Bi-directional Image Coprocessor Chip </A></TD>