OpenJPEG
Encyclopedia
OpenJPEG is an open-source library
Library (computer science)
In computer science, a library is a collection of resources used to develop software. These may include pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications....

 to encode and decode JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...

 images.

Support for lossless 16-bit images

Unlike JasPer
JasPer
JasPer is a project to create a reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, . The project was started in 1997 by Image Power Inc. and the University of British Columbia...

, another open-source JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...

 implementation, OpenJPEG fully respects the JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...

 specification and can compress/decompress lossless 16-bit images.

Origin

OpenJPEG is a fork of libj2k, a JPEG-2000 codec library written by David Janssens during his master thesis at UCL in 2001.

See also

  • JasPer
    JasPer
    JasPer is a project to create a reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, . The project was started in 1997 by Image Power Inc. and the University of British Columbia...

  • Kakadu library
    Kakadu (software)
    Kakadu is a closed-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. It implements the ISO/IEC 15444-1 standard fully in part 1, and partly in parts 2-3. It is developed by David Taubman from University of New South Wales , Australia...

  • intoPIX

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