Login to view embedded media View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv1Hiv3ox8I The original JPEG specification published in 1992 implements processes from various earlier
research papers and
patents cited by the
CCITT (now
ITU-T) and Joint Photographic Experts Group.
[1] The main basis for JPEG's
lossy compression algorithm is the
discrete cosine transform (DCT),
[1][13] which was first proposed by
Nasir Ahmed as an
image compression technique in 1972.
[7][13] Ahmed developed a practical DCT algorithm with T. Natarajan of
Kansas State University and
K. R. Rao of the
University of Texas in 1973.
[7] Their seminal 1974 paper
[14] is cited in the JPEG specification, along with several later research papers that did further work on DCT, including a 1977 paper by Wen-Hsiung Chen, C.H. Smith and S.C. Fralick that described a fast DCT algorithm,
[1][15] as well as a 1978 paper by N.J. Narasinha and S.C. Fralick, and a 1984 paper by B.G. Lee.
[1] The specification also cites a 1984 paper by Wen-Hsiung Chen and W.K. Pratt as an influence on its
quantization algorithm,
[1][16] and
David A. Huffman's 1952 paper for its
Huffman coding algorithm.
[1] "JPEG" stands for
Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the JPEG standard and also other still picture coding standards. The "Joint" stood for
ISO TC97 WG8 and
CCITT SGVIII. Founded in 1986, the group developed the JPEG standard during the late 1980s. Among several
transform coding techniques they examined, they selected the
discrete cosine transform (DCT), as it was by far the most efficient practical compression technique. The group published the JPEG standard in 1992.
[4] In 1987, ISO TC 97 became ISO/IEC JTC1 and, in 1992, CCITT became ITU-T. Currently on the JTC1 side, JPEG is one of two sub-groups of
ISO/
IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1 (
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1) – titled as
Coding of still pictures.
[18][19][20] On the ITU-T side, ITU-T SG16 is the respective body. The original JPEG Group was organized in 1986,
[21] issuing the first JPEG standard in 1992, which was approved in September 1992 as
ITU-T Recommendation T.81[22] and, in 1994, as
ISO/IEC 10918-1.
The JPEG standard specifies the
codec, which defines how an image is compressed into a stream of
bytes and decompressed back into an image, but not the file format used to contain that stream.
[23] The
Exif and
JFIF standards define the commonly used file formats for interchange of JPEG-compressed images.
JPEG standards are formally named as
Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images. ISO/IEC 10918 consists of the following parts: