JPEG - Idea and Practice

Contents

• Foreword

The idea

• The colour components
• The transform and quantization
• The compression and encoding
• The decoding and drawing
• Miscellaneous

The practice

• Introduction
• The Huffman coding
• The header part
• The guidelines and the implementation
• Program for making a grey scale file
• Program for drawing a grey scale picture
• The two programs for a colour picture
• When the width or the height is not divisible by 8

Back matter

• Appendix 1: Summary of the header segments
• Appendix 2: Programs for calculating code lengths from the actual picture
• References
• Download programs