We will cover image compression topics by reviewing the JPEG and JPEG2000 encoding and decoding algorithms. These algorithms touch on virtually every type of compression algorithm, except for fractal coding (see ref. section for more information.

References:

Tutorial from the IEEE Proceedings on still image compression.

Web document on image compression from by Subhasis Saha at UC Davis.

Image Compression FAQ. Part 2 of 3 gives the gory technical details of how the algorithms work.

JPEG and MPEG sites, best source of information on the evolving standards for JPEG and MPEG. Also, see JPEG2000 site.

Image compression publications from vision science group at NASA. Interesting discussions on how quantization noise affects image quality in DCT and Wavelet compressed images.

Fractal Encoding for Image compression

	Review of fractals
	Fractal Image compression
	Note from JPEG FAQ: "Fractals have been terribly over-hyped by their chief commercial proponent, and seem to be losing favor as people learn more about their true capabilities and limitations."

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