Joint Photographic Experts Group

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The Joint Photographic Experts Group a joint committee between ISO and ITU-T (formerly CCITT) which created the JPEG and JPEG 2000 standards. Its proper name is ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29, Working Group 1.

The group was formed in 1982, and meet three times annually in North America, Asia and Europe.


[edit] Joint Bi-level Image experts Group

The Joint Bi-level Image experts Group (JBIG) is a sub group of the same working group as the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which focuses on Monochrome images. They created the JBIG standard.


[edit] Published Standards

Joint Photographic Experts Group Published Standards
Common Name ISO/IEC Number ITU Number Name
JPEG ISO/IEC 10918-1 CCITT Recommendation T.81 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – DIGITAL COMPRESSION AND CODING OF CONTINUOUS-TONE STILL IMAGES REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES
JPEG 2000 ISO/IEC 15444-1 ITU-T Recommendation T.800 Information technology – JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system
ISO/IEC 15444-2 ITU-T Recommendation T.801 Information technology – JPEG 2000 image coding system: Extensions
JBIG ISO/IEC 11544 ITU-T Recommendation T.82 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – CODED REPRESENTATION OF PICTURE AND AUDIO INFORMATION – PROGRESSIVE BI-LEVEL IMAGE COMPRESSION

[edit] External Links

Official website of the Joint Photographic Experts Group