JPEG

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy image compression format for opaque, still images.

The “Making Software - Image Compression” book chapter also has a good overview of a number of image formats, including JPEG.

Further Reading

Web pages:

• DCT and DFT for 1D and 2D Signals by Ekrem Fidan.
• How JPEG works by Christopher G. Jennings.
• How JPG Works by Colt McAnlis.
• JPEG compression by Sophie Wang.
• JPEG Series, Part I: Visualizing the Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform by Alex Dowad.
• JPEG Series, Part II: Huffman Coding by Alex Dowad.
• Not so fast, Mr. Fourier! by Michał Zalewski.
• Understanding and Decoding a JPEG Image using Python by Yasoob Khalid.
• Unraveling the JPEG by Omar Shehata.
• Wikipedia's JPEG Encoding page.

YouTube videos:

• JPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG Pt2)- Computerphile.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach.

Books:

You may be able to find these books at your local university's science library.

• Compressed Image File Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, XBM, BMP, also known as the white book.
• JPEG: Still Image Data Compression Standard, also known as the pink book.

Link collections:

• https://pinboard.in/u:thakis/t:jpeg/