OPENPRESS-open distributed assessment platform for still image compression schemes

Performance comparison between image compression methods is an activity difficult to realise because of the few standard environments for validation. The objective of this paper is to present OPENPRESS as a single open platform for validation allowing the integration of most of the current and future image compression methods, to facilitate their comparison and validation on a common and coherent set of reference images. Another goal of OPENPRESS is to ensure a broad distribution of these compression methods to the potential users. For that purpose, the proposed environment involves advanced computer science techniques like distributed computing, platform-independent software engineering, client/server decomposition, etc.