This book initiates a new digital multimedia standards series. The purpose of the series is to make information about digital multimedia standards readilyavailable. Both tutorial and advanced topics will be covered in the series, often in one book. Our hope is that users will find the series helpful in deciding what standards to support and use while implementors will d- cover a wealth of technical details that help them implement those standards correctly. In today's global economy standards are increasingly important. Yet until a standard is widely used, most of the benefits of...

Created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the JPEG is the first colour still image data compression international standard. It consists of 20 explicitly defined processes to encode or decode continuous tone still images.