Notes on the Standardization Process HD Still Pictures

Coding of Still Pictures

In 1996, the JPEG committee began to investigate possibilities for a new still image compression standard to serve current and future applications. This initiative, which was named JPEG2000, has resulted in a comprehensive standard (ISO 15444 | ITU-T Recommendation T.800) that is being issued in six parts. Part 1, in the same vein as the JPEG baseline system, is aimed at minimal complexity and ...

Coding of Still Pictures

Standardization: Understanding the Process

Critics of the CCITT, ISO, ANSI, X3, IEEE and other Standards Development Organizations ("SDOs") complain that the formal approach to standard-setting followed by these institutions is too bureaucratic and time consuming. In this paper, I briefly describe the key features which distinguish SDO standard-setting and analyze these features in light of recent work in political economy. I argue that...

Adaptive Fractal Coding of Still Pictures

This paper presents a method for lossy coding of still pictures using the theory of iterated function systems (IFS) which is a standard description for deterministic fractals. The coding concept is based on a blockwise fractal approximation of the original image by contraction mappings of itself using affine transformations which are a special case of IFSs. Data reduction is achieved by exploit...

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