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Image Compression Fundamentals
Chapter Outline
Now that we have the basics of entropy, predictive coding, DCT and quantization, we are ready to discuss image compression. This deals with a single, still image rather than the continuous sequence of images which makes up a video stream.
JPEG is often ubiquitous with image compression. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, a committee that has published international standards on image compression. JPEG is an extensive portfolio of both lossy and lossless image compression standards and options. In this section, we will focus on baseline JPEG.
13.1 Baseline JPEG
Baseline JPEG compresses ...
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