Moritz Firsching

JPEG XL next-generation image compression architecture and coding tools

Authors: Jyrki Alakuijala, Ruud van Asseldonk, Sami Boukortt, Martin Bruse, Iulia M. Comșa, Moritz Firsching, Thomas Fischbacher, Evgenii Kliuchnikov, Sebastian Gomez, Robert Obryk, Krzysztof Potempa, Alexander Rhatushnyaki, Jon Sneyers, Zoltan Szabadka, Lode Vandevenne, Luca Versari and Jan Wassenberg
Journal: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 11137, 2019.
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An update on the JPEG XL standardization effort: JPEG XL is a practical approach focused on scalable web distribution and efficient compression of high-quality images. It will provide various benefits compared to existing image formats: significantly smaller size at equivalent subjective quality; fast, parallelizable decoding and encoding configurations; features such as progressive, lossless, animation, and reversible transcoding of existing JPEG; support for high-quality applications including wide gamut, higher resolution/bit depth/dynamic range, and visually lossless coding. Additionally, a royalty-free baseline is an important goal. The JPEG XL architecture is traditional block-transform coding with upgrades to each component. We describe these components and analyze decoded image quality.

@InProceedings{ Alakuijala_Asseldonk_Boukortt_Bruse_Comșa_Firsching_Fischbacher_Kliuchnikov_Gomez_Obryk_Potempa_Rhatushnyaki_Sneyers_Szabadka_Vandevenne_Versari_Wassenberg_JPEG2019,
  author = "Jyrki Alakuijala and Ruud van Asseldonk and Sami Boukortt and Martin Bruse and Iulia M. Comșa and Moritz Firsching and Thomas Fischbacher and Evgenii Kliuchnikov and Sebastian Gomez and Robert Obryk and Krzysztof Potempa and Alexander Rhatushnyaki and Jon Sneyers and Zoltan Szabadka and Lode Vandevenne and Luca Versari and Jan Wassenberg",
  editor = "Andrew G. Tescher and Touradj Ebrahimi",
  title = "JPEG XL next-generation image compression architecture and coding tools",
  booktitle = "Applications of Digital Image Processing XLII",
  year = "2019",
  journal = "SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications",
  volume = "11137",
  doi = "10.1117/12.2529237"
}