Joint photographic experts group
image, body, file format, standard
(JPEG) The original name of the committee that designed the standard image compression algorithm. JPEG is designed for compressing either full-colour or grey-scale digital images of “natural”, real-world scenes. It does not work so well on non-realistic images, such as cartoons or line drawings. JPEG does not handle compression of black-and-white (1 bit-per-pixel) images or moving pictures. Standards for compressing those types of images are being worked on by other committees, named JBIG and MPEG.
(http://jpeg.org/).
Filename extension: .jpg, .jpeg.
See also PJPEG.
(2000-09-11)
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