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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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1993&amp;JPEG2000 Bi-directional Image Coprocessor Chip"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Analog Devices makes a JPEG2000 processor that 
      can process better than 10 Megapixels per second. This chip is targeted 
      towards the digital still camera market. You can find a press release on 
      the page that says initial pricing is $14 in 10K quantities. </TD></TR>
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      href="http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010511S0029">JPEG200 In Accelerator 
      Chip </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1819&amp;JPEG200 In Accelerator Chip"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Analog Devices has announced an acceleratory 
      chip that supports the JPEG2000 image compression format. The chip is 
      targeted towards digital still cameras, and is available now for $14 in 
      quantitites. </TD></TR>
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      href="http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000707S0004">Chinese JPEG2000 
      business on runway </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2369&amp;Chinese JPEG2000 business on runway"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">This article in EE Times describes an effort to 
      steer the Chinese digital camera business onto the JPEG-2000 road. The 
      goal is to create a chip that can be inserted into cameras for less than 
      $10. The supplier of the algorithm used in the chip is WIS Technologies. 
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.e-insite.net/eb-mag/index.asp?layout=article&amp;articleid=CA243581&amp;spacedesc=news">FREE 
      Print Subscriptions Printer friendly versionEmail a Colleague Star IP 
      Cores Target ASIC/FPGA Implementation </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2481&amp;FREE Print Subscriptions Printer friendly versionEmail a ColleagueStar IP Cores Target ASIC/FPGA Implementation"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Amphion Semiconductor has announced the 
      development of ASIC- and FPGA-targeted versions of the company's 
      hardware-accelerator cores for MPEG-4, MPEG-2, and JPEG2000 compression 
      applications. The new "Star IP" cores are also equipped with AHB 
      interfaces that are compatible with the AMBA specification for on-chip 
      system bus connectivity. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Links</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://public.migrator2000.org/demos.xalter">JPEG 2000 Tools 2.0 
    </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1761&amp;JPEG 2000 Tools 2.0"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A><BR><IMG 
      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">Developed in the scope of MIGRATOR 2000 project 
      <A href="http://www.migrator2000.org/">(www.migrator2000.org)</A>, this 
      site presents a graphical user interface to the three currently available 
      codecs (VM, JJ2000, Jasper) as well as validation and parsing services to 
      J2k codestreams and JP2 files. It's currently a widely used tool within 
      WG1 (JPEG) to perform compliance tests on coders and codestreams. Site 
      requires free registration for purposes of tracking stored images. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/">JasPer: A Software-Based 
      JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1209&amp;JasPer: A Software-Based JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A><BR><IMG 
      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">Jasper is a C-language implementation of the 
      JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard. Michael Adams seems to run the show, with help 
      from Image Power and a small team. This page gives you access to the 
      software, documentation, and a nice set of links. Jasper is distributed 
      under a free license. <BR>Version 1.701.0 is shipping as of February, 
      2004. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://stargate.ecn.purdue.edu/~ips/tutorials/j2k/">Viper - The JPEG 
      2000 Resource Page </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1367&amp;Viper - The JPEG 2000 Resource Page"><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/3.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">A page of links and information from the image 
      processing folks at Purdue. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jpeg.org/public/jpeglinks.html">JPEG - Information Links 
      </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1067&amp;JPEG - Information Links"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">A page of links from the JPEG committee. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.html">JPEG 2000 - Links to Information 
      </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2729&amp;JPEG 2000 - Links to Information"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">The JPEG 2000 committee uses this as the main 
      source of links to the JPEG 2000-related pages on their site. It also 
      includes a friendly plug for a book by committee members, with a "Buy Me" 
      link to Amazon.com. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Non-Commercial Libraries</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A href="http://j2000.org/">Almacom JPEG-2000 
      library </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2306&amp;Almacom JPEG-2000 library"><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">The page says: <I>The Almacom JPEG-2000 library 
      was written in an effort to produce the cleanest and simplest 
      implementation possible of the JPEG-2000 standard. We have put a 
      particular emphasis on good architecture design and code simplicity, while 
      at the same time providing an implementation as complete and efficient as 
      possible. <BR>DataCompression.info user Luca M. said <I>I was looking for 
      a good library of wavelets. Now I've found it !</I> </I></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jp2tools.de/English/">jp2IE - JPEG2000 ActiveX Control 
      for Internet Explorer </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2506&amp;jp2IE - JPEG2000 ActiveX Control for Internet Explorer"><FONT 
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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/3.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">The jp2IE control is an extension of Microsoft抯 
      Internet Explorer and allows the display of JPEG/JPEG2000 compressed 
      files. It is based on the IJG implementation of the JPEG Standard Part 1/2 
      (ISO/IEC 10918-1/2) and the JASPER implementation of the JPEG2000 
      Standards Part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1). </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      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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      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/3.gif"></TD>
    <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.elysium.ltd.uk/solutions/JPEG2000.html">JPEG 2000 Browser 
      Plugin </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2785&amp;JPEG 2000 Browser Plugin"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">Elysium says that this product is the first 
      publicly released JPEG 2000 plugin for the Windows platform. It works with 
      Netscape, Opera, and IE browsers, and is free. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/TonyJpegLib.asp">Classes to read 
      and write BMP, JPEG and JPEG 2000 </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2631&amp;Classes to read and write BMP, JPEG and JPEG 2000"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">Tony Lin created some classes that can read 
      these three popular image formats, and includes an MFC demo app. The 
      Jasper coder is used for JEPG2K support. </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Non-Commercial Programs</H2></TD></TR>
  <TR vAlign=top width="100%">
    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://public.migrator2000.org/demos.xalter">JPEG 2000 Tools 2.0 
    </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1761&amp;JPEG 2000 Tools 2.0"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A><BR><IMG 
      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">Developed in the scope of MIGRATOR 2000 project 
      <A href="http://www.migrator2000.org/">(www.migrator2000.org)</A>, this 
      site presents a graphical user interface to the three currently available 
      codecs (VM, JJ2000, Jasper) as well as validation and parsing services to 
      J2k codestreams and JP2 files. It's currently a widely used tool within 
      WG1 (JPEG) to perform compliance tests on coders and codestreams. Site 
      requires free registration for purposes of tracking stored images. </TD></TR>
  <TR vAlign=top width="100%">
    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/">JasPer: A Software-Based 
      JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation </A></TD>
    <TD width="3%"></TD>
    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1209&amp;JasPer: A Software-Based JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A><BR><IMG 
      src="DataCompression_info - JPEG-2000.files/4.gif"></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">Jasper is a C-language implementation of the 
      JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard. Michael Adams seems to run the show, with help 
      from Image Power and a small team. This page gives you access to the 
      software, documentation, and a nice set of links. Jasper is distributed 
      under a free license. <BR>Version 1.701.0 is shipping as of February, 
      2004. </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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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2966&amp;JPEG 2000 Dropper"><FONT