Your definitive guide to state–of–the–art image compression With excellent image quality at low bit rate, progressive transmission, scalability, region–of–interest coding, random access, error resilience, and many other salient features, the JPEG2000 standard for scalable image compression is rapidly becoming the cornerstone of today?s innovative multimedia industry. Providing comprehensive and accessible coverage of the new JPEG2000 standard, this timely and authoritative text provides a clear overview of both the theory and principles behind the algorithms, and a solid foundation of multimedia compression techniques. Written by one of JPEG2000?s key developers, this crucial reference features: Introduction of the compression principles for different multimedia data–types A review of the current JPEG standard, its advantages and disadvantages Principles of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and its efficient implementation VLSI architectures...