What is JPEG2000 ?

JPEG 2000 is the latest standard for still image compression, developed with a goal to achieve higher compression efficiency and error resilience. The demonstration below gives a visual outline of the differences between JPEG2000 and its predecessor JPEG .
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JPEG2000 is a very flexibile standard which allows the user to extract, from a single compressed file, various versions of the image in respect to resolution, quality, and color space.
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The above demos are in Flash. If you don't have flash, download it here.