Digital image capture, processing, storage, transmission, and display are now taken for granted as part of the technology of modern everyday life. Digital image compression is one of the enabling technologies of the present multimedia world. The image compression technique used for application as diverse as photography, web pages, medical imaging, and public records is JPEG, named after the ISO/CCITT “joint photographic experts group,” established in 1986, which developed the technique in the late 1980s and produced the international standard in the early ’90s. ITU-T T.81¦ISO/IEC 10918-1, also called “JPEG-1” has become one of the most successful standards in information and communication technologies (ICT) history. The authors of this paper—all members of the original JPEG development team—were all intimately involved in image-coding research and JPEG in particular. The paper goes behind the scenes explaining why and how JPEG came about and looks under the bonnet of the technique explaining the different components that give the standard of its efficiency, versatility, and robustness that have made a technique that has stood the test of time and evolved to cover applications beyond its original scope. In addition, the authors give a short outlook of the main milestones in coding schemes of still images since “JPEG-1.”
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