Jpeg 2000

∗ Corresponding author. Fax: +30 61 997456 Email addresses: [email protected] (A.N. Skodras), [email protected] (C.A. Christopoulos), [email protected] (T. Ebrahimi). Abstract: With the increasing use of multimedia technologies, image compression requires higher performance as well as new features. To address this need in the specific area of still image encoding, a new standard is currently being developed, the JPEG2000. It is not only intended to provide rate-distortion and subjective image quality performance superior to existing standards, but also to provide functionality that current standards can either not address efficiently or not address at all.