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=left width="58%">A free Max OS X program that converts your 
      images to JPEG 2000. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.users.bigpond.com/kevinpeirce/Epic24/index.htm">Epic24 
      </A></TD>
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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?3124&amp;Epic24"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">From the site: <I>Epic24 is a GUI program that 
      I wrote to interactively compare graphic compression codecs against each 
      other. It currently contains JPG, Lossless JPG, JPEG 2000, (Jasper Library 
      Implementation), PNG, John Robinson's BTP and ATP, and finally my own 
      lossless graphics compression called IMPLODE (IMage Predictive LOssless 
      Decoder Encoder).</I> </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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    <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>Papers/Documentation</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/jpeg2k-study-eusipco2000">A 
      study of JPEG 2000 still image coding versus other standards </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1611&amp;A study of JPEG 2000 still image coding versus other standards"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">by Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. This 
      paper is to-be-published. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.webreview.com/1999/08_13/designers/08_13_99_3.shtml">JPEG 
      2000, More Than New Millennium Buzz </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1069&amp;JPEG 2000, More Than New Millennium Buzz"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">An article on JPEG 2000 in WebReview. A pretty 
      good description of what's going to be in the standard. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.rii.ricoh.com/~gormish/pdf/mwscs99_j2k_worthwait.pdf">JPEG 
      2000: Worth the Wait? </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2134&amp;JPEG 2000: Worth the Wait?"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">A paper by Michael J. Gormish from Ricoh in 
      Silicon Valley. History, rationale, results, and procedures. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.rii.ricoh.com/~gormish/pdf/dcc2000_jpeg2000_note.pdf">An 
      Overview of JPEG-2000 </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2133&amp;An Overview of JPEG-2000"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">A paper by Michael W. Marcellin, Michael J. 
      Gormish, Ali Bilgin, Martin P. Boliek that was published in the 2000 
      Proceedings of the DCC. Good information of only moderate complexity in an 
      academic format. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/jpeg2k-func-icip2000">An 
      analytical study of JPEG 2000 functionalities </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1612&amp;An analytical study of JPEG 2000 functionalities"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">by Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. A 
      paper to be published in <I>Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on 
      Image Processing (ICIP)</I>, September, 2000. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/jpeg2000-icmcs99">JPEG2000, 
      the next millenium compression standard for still </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1609&amp;JPEG2000, the next millenium compression standard for still"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">by Maryline Charrier, Diego Santa Cruz and 
      Mathias Larsson. This short paper gives an overview of the JPEG2000 
      standard, along with a java decoder. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/interactive-roi-mmsp99">Region 
      of Interest Coding in JPEG2000 for interactive client/server applications 
      </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?1608&amp;Region of Interest Coding in JPEG2000 for interactive client/server applications"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">A paper by Diego Santa Cruz, Touradj Ebrahimi, 
      Mathias Larsson, Joel Askel鰂 and Charilaos Cristopoulos. According to the 
      abstract, this paper discusses ways to decode regions of an image on the 
      fly without needing to do a complete decode of the entire image. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://ai.fri.uni-lj.si/~aleks/jpeg/artifacts.htm">Baseline JPEG and 
      JPEG2000 Artifacts Illustrated </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2353&amp; Baseline JPEG and JPEG2000 Artifacts Illustrated"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">This paper by Aleks Jakulin discusses the 
      artifacts that show up in images compressed using the JPEG and JPEG2000 
      algorithms. He includes some nice sample images to illustrate what he is 
      talking about. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/memlinks.html">Documents from JPEG 
      Committee Members </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2587&amp;Documents from JPEG Committee Members"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">The papers pointed to here provide useful 
      background information on the standard. There are seminar papers, 
      tutorials, and other background documents. </TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/commlinks.html">JPEG 2000 Committee 
      Documents </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2586&amp;JPEG 2000 Committee Documents"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">The JPEG 2000 committee publishes links to some 
      of their documents here. (Notably absent: the standards themselves.) This 
      includes links to standard drafts, press releases, and requirements. 
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      <H2>People</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/staff/taubman/profile.htm">David Taubman 
      </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?2724&amp;David Taubman"><FONT 
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    <TD align=left width="58%">David Taubman is on the faculty of the 
      University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Taubman is the author 
      of the book <I>JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and 
      Practice</I> and has been very influential in the current development of 
      the standard. He is also the author of Kakadu, a commercial library that 
      is advertised as a complete implementation of Part 1 of the standard. 
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      <H2>Portuguese</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>Results</H2></TD></TR>
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    <TD align=right width="30%"><A 
      href="http://www.users.bigpond.com/kevinpeirce/Epic24/index.htm">Epic24 
      </A></TD>
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      href="http://datacompression.info/RateUrl.shtml?3124&amp;Epic24"><FONT 
      size=-1>Rate</FONT></A></TD>
    <TD align=left width="58%">From the site: <I>Epic24 is a GUI program that 
      I wrote to interactively compare graphic compression codecs against each 
      other. It currently contains JPG, Lossless JPG, JPEG 2000, (Jasper Library 
      Implementation), PNG, John Robinson's BTP and ATP, and finally my own 
      lossless graphics compression called IMPLODE (IMage Predictive LOssless 
      Decoder Encoder).</I> </TD></TR>
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      <H2>Source Code</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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    <TD align=middle width="6%"><A 
      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