Posted on Sunday, May 6th, 2007
HP’s Susie Wee gives some insight on newly approved Part-8 of Jpeg2000 standard which deals with, among other things, intelligent encryption of Jpeg 2000 files. Susie has been working on media security for scalable media for some years now, and is a co-editor of the JPSEC standard.
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Posted on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Come 2007, and you can download any ITU standard free from their website (this includes many major data compression standards).
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Posted on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Microsoft has renamed its new image format as HDPhoto (earlier called WMPhoto), and licensing terms have been revised. Version 1.0 of device porting kit is now available.
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Posted on Friday, October 27th, 2006
October 2006 issue of the Data Compression Newsletter.
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Posted on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
A report by MSU concludes that “some one-year old implementations of JPEG 2000 significantly outperform WMPhoto in objective and subjective comparison”. But this is NOT the final word. Bill Crow, program manager for Windows Media Photo, gives an interesting review of this comparison.
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Posted on Monday, October 2nd, 2006
File-format security exploits are not all that new. This time viewing a maliciously-crafted JPEG2000 image may lead to an application crash or arbitrary code execution.
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Posted on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
The new ITU extension to JPEG offers better (and faster) compression by introducing a new (backward incompatible) alternative Q15 arithmetic coding. Color precision is increased to maximum 16 bits per color component.
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Posted on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
The use of the JPEG format is becoming so mired in patent snarls that it is quickly becoming an albatross around the necks of any companies doing imaging.
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Posted on Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Press Release: JPIP, Part 9 of the JPEG 2000 standard, now provides a DICOM-compliant protocol for ultra-efficient client/server transport and viewing of JPEG 2000 medical images.
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Posted on Monday, March 27th, 2006
Press Release: Disney’s ‘Chicken Little’ is first film shown commercially in Europe to be compatible with Hollywood standards for digital cinema.
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