Mumbai university > Electronics and telecommunication Engineering > Sem 7 > Data compression and Encryption

Marks: 5

Years: Dec 2015

Some applications intended to be served by this standard are listed below:

a. Consumer applications such as multimedia devices (e.g. digital cameras, personal digital assistants, 3G mobile phones , color facsimile, printers, scanners etc).

b. Client/Server communication (e.g. the Internet, Image database, Video streaming, video server etc)

c. Military/surveillance. E.g. HD satellite images, motion detection, network distribution and storage etc.

d. Medical imagery especially the DICOM specifications for medical data interchange.

e. Biometrics

f. Remote sensing

g. High quality frame based recording, editing and storage.

h. Digital cinema

i. Live HDTV feed contribution such as live HDTV feed of a sport event linked to the TV station studio.

j. JPEG 2000 has many design commonalities with the ICER image compression format that is used to send images back from the Mars rover.

k. Digitized audio-visual contents and images for long term digital preservation.

l. World Meteorological Organization has built JPEG 2000 compression into the new GRIB2 file format. The GRIB file structure is designed for global distribution of meteorological data. The implementation of JPEG 2000 compression in GRIB2 has reduced file sizes up to 80%.