The ability to compress digital pictures is a fundamental step in providing digital moving pictures. The compression techniques used to compress a colour picture are also the basis of digital video compression. This chapter goes through the basic techniques used to compress a single digital image and explains how the JPEG compression and related algorithms actually work.
Whenever multimedia is mentioned, it conjures up the vision of TV quality video on a PC — and yet the technology involved in providing this has stretched both the communication and electronic media industries for several years and is likely to continue to do so. The basic problem is essentially one of too much data for too ...
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