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Committee Draft of JPEG XL Image Coding System

Image and Video Processing 2019-08-20 v2 Graphics

Abstract

JPEG XL is a practical approach focused on scalable web distribution and efficient compression of high-quality images. It provides various benefits compared to existing image formats: 60% size reduction at equivalent subjective quality; fast, parallelizable decoding and encoding configurations; features such as progressive, lossless, animation, and reversible transcoding of existing JPEG with 22% size reduction; support for high-quality applications including wide gamut, higher resolution/bit depth/dynamic range, and visually lossless coding. The JPEG XL architecture is traditional block-transform coding with upgrades to each component.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1908.03565,
  title  = {Committee Draft of JPEG XL Image Coding System},
  author = {Alexander Rhatushnyak and Jan Wassenberg and Jon Sneyers and Jyrki Alakuijala and Lode Vandevenne and Luca Versari and Robert Obryk and Zoltan Szabadka and Evgenii Kliuchnikov and Iulia-Maria Comsa and Krzysztof Potempa and Martin Bruse and Moritz Firsching and Renata Khasanova and Ruud van Asseldonk and Sami Boukortt and Sebastian Gomez and Thomas Fischbacher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03565},
  year   = {2019}
}

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