JPEG2000: Present and future of the new standard

JPEG2000 is the most recent element in the large family of international standards developed by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG). The new JPEG2000 standard defines an image compression system that allows great flexibility not only for the compression of images but also for the access in the codestream. This paper presents briefly the different parts of the standard, already specified or currently in study. Other papers [8-15] in EUSIPCO 2002 provide further details on specific parts of the standard.