JPEG2000 Standard for Image Compression – Concepts, Algorithms and VLSI Architectures

TINKU ACHARYA, PhD, is Chief Science Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of Avisere, Inc., Tucson, Arizona, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. With seventy--four U.S. patents, fourteen European patents, and more than fifty patents pending, Professor Acharya has been recognized as Intel Corporation's "Most Prolific Inventor" in 1999 and 2001 worldwide and for five consecutive years (1997 2001) in Arizona. He has published three books and more than sixty papers in the area of multimedia computing. PING--SING TSAI, PhD, is Assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas--Pan American, in Edinburg, Texas. He has published more than twenty journal and conference papers, holds thirteen patents, and has five patents pending.

Preface. 1. Introduction to Data Compression. 2. Source Coding Algorithms. 3. JPEG Still Image Compression Standard. 4. Introduction to Discrete Wavelet Transform. 5. VLSI Architectures for Discrete Wavelet Transforms. 6. JPEG 2000 Standard. 7. Coding Algorithms in JPEG 2000. 8. Code Stream Organization and File Format. 9. VLSI Architectures for JPEG 2000. 10. Beyond Part 1. of JPEG 2000. Index. About the Authors.