In this paper, we review the various tools in JPEG-2000 that allow the users to take advantages of the various properties of the human visual system such as spatial frequency sensitivity and the visual masking effect. We show that the visual tool sets in JPEG-2000 are much richer than what was available in JPEG, where only locally invariant frequency weighting can be exploited

Modern image storage services, especially those associated with social media services, host massive collections of images. These images are often replicated at many different resolutions to support different devices and contexts, incurring substantial capacity overheads. One approach to alleviate these overheads is to resize them at request time. However, this approach can be inefficient, as re...

For an entropy-coded Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image, a transmission error in a codeword will not only affect the underlying codeword but also may affect subsequent codewords, resulting in a great degradation of the received image. In this study, an error resilient coding scheme for JPEG image transmission based on data embedding and side-match vector quantization (VQ) is proposed...

The efficient compression of medical images is important for improved storage and network utilization. The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) baseline compression algorithm has been widely used in medical image compression. In contrast, JPEG2000 is a relative new compression standard. The purpose of this study is to provide a quantitative comparison of JPEG and JPEG2000 compression effects...

We present simple color space transformations for lossless image compression and compare them with established transformations including RCT, YCoCg-R and with the optimal KLT for 3 sets of test images and for significantly different compression algorithms: JPEG-LS, JPEG2000 and JPEG XR. One of the transformations, RDgDb, which requires just 2 integer subtractions per image pixel, on average res...

In this paper, a novel steganographic method, based on JPEG and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO), is proposed. In order to improve the quality of stego-images, an optimal substitution matrix for transforming the secret messages is first derived by means of the PSO algorithm. The standard JPEG quantization table is also modified to contain more secret messages. The transformed message...

A new color image watermarking algorithm with resistance to JPEG lossy compression based on Quantization Index Modulation (QIM) is proposed in this paper. As it is known, QIM method can achieve a good balance between the embedding bit rate, robustness and distortion between the original image and the composited image by modulating the source signal into different clusters. The corresponding DCT...

JPEG 2000, the new ISO/ITU-T standard for still image coding, has recently reached the International Standard (IS) status. Other new standards have been recently introduced, namely JPEG-LS and MPEG-4 VTC. This paper provides a comparison of JPEG 2000 with JPEGLS and MPEG-4 VTC, in addition to older but widely used solutions, such as JPEG and PNG, and well established algorithms, such as SPIHT. ...

Advances in network communications have necessitated secure local-storage and transmission of multimedia content. In particular, military networks need to securely store sensitive imagery which at a later stage may be transmitted over bandwidth-constrained wireless networks. This work investigates compression efficiency of JPEG and JPEG 2000 standards for encrypted images. An encryption techniq...

The JPEG committee has recently released its new image coding standard, JPEG 2000, which will serve as a supplement for the original JPEG standard introduced in 1992. Rather than incrementally improving on the original standard, JPEG 2000 implements an entirely new way of compressing images based on the wavelet transform, in contrast to the discrete cosine transform (DCT) used in the original J...