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unusual facts about Image compression


National Imagery Transmission Format

NITF has adopted the ISO/IEC 15444-1 standard for imagery compression, JPEG 2000.


Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires

Research topics span from theoretical computer science, such as Formal languages, Formal methods, or more mathematically-oriented topics such as Information theory, optimization, Complex system... to application-driven topics like Bioinformatics, image and video compression, Handwriting recognition, Computer graphics, Medical imaging, Content-based image retrieval...

Kodak DCS 100

The DSU contained a 200 megabyte hard disk drive that could store up to 156 images without compression, or up to 600 images using a JPEG compatible compression board that was offered later as an optional extra.


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BBC Domesday Project

The project had begun years before JPEG image compression and before truecolour computer video cards had become widely available.

Johnson-Grace

The founders later talked to Irving Reed at the University of Southern California, who had an idea for an improved image compression algoritihm, and started implementing such an algorithm; this became the ART image file format.

Jp2

JPEG 2000 (.jp2), a wavelet-based image compression standard