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Performance Analysis of the JPEG 2000 Image Coding Standard

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Some of the major objectives of the JPEG 2000 still image coding standard were compression and memory efficiency, lossy to lossless coding, support for continuous-tone to bi-level images, error resilience, and random access to regions of interest. This paper will provide readers with some insight on various features and functionalities supported by a baseline JPEG 2000-compliant codec. Three JPEG 2000 software implementations (Kakadu, JasPer, JJ2000) are compared with several other codecs, including JPEG, JBIG, JPEG-LS, MPEG-4 VTC and H.264 intra coding. This study can serve as a guideline for users to estimate the effectiveness of JPEG 2000 for various applications, and to select optimal parameters according to specific application requirements.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030-1503, USA

    Hong Man

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-3072, USA

    Alen Docef

  3. UB Video, Inc., Suite 203,1038-1040 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 2R9

    Faouzi Kossentini

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Hong Man received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999, in Electrical Engineering. He joined Stevens Institute of Technology in 2000, and currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is serving as the director for Visual Information Environment Laboratory at Stevens, the director for Computer Engineering undergraduate program in the ECE department, and the coordinator for NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance in the School of Engineering. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He served as member of organizing committee for IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia and Signal Processing (MMSP) 2002 and 2005, member of technical program committee for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2003, and IEEE/ACM International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE) 2004 and 2005. He is a committee member on IEEE SPS TC for Education. He was an active contributor to the ISO/ITU JPEG 2000 image coding standard.

Alen Docef received his Diploma of Engineer from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1991. He obtained an M.S.E.E degree in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, all in electrical engineering. From 1998 to 1999 he worked as a research engineer in the Signal Processing and Multimedia Group of the University of British Columbia. In 2000 he joined the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include multimedia signal compression, medical image processing, and real-time implementation of DSP algorithms. He has been a member of the IEEE since 1995.

Faouzi Kossentini received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1989, 1990, and 1994, respectively. He is presently the President and CEO of UB Video Inc., a company in Vancouver (Canada) that develops video communication products for the video conferencing and broadcast markets. Before the year 2004, he had been an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where he was involved in research in the areas of signal processing, communications and multimedia. He has co-authored more than two hundred journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. Dr. Kossentini is a senior member of the IEEE. He has served as a Vice General Chair for ICIP-2000, and he has also served as an associate editor for the IEEE transactions on Image Processing and the IEEE transactions on Multimedia.

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Man, H., Docef, A. & Kossentini, F. Performance Analysis of the JPEG 2000 Image Coding Standard. Multimed Tools Appl 26, 27–57 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-005-6848-5

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