Esprit Working Group 27100 - EUROSTILL

A concerted European initiative towards the standardization of the next generation still image compression - JPEG 2000

Keywords	Standarization, JPEG2000
Technical	Multimedia, image compression, architectures,features and functionalities
User	Multimedia content providers, publishers, Internet users
Sector	Internet, mobile and wireless communications, medical, publishing

Links

Open European JPEG2000 promotion

EUSIPCO-98 Satellite Event

See the EUROSTILL group at work (snapshots)

Objectives

The project will set up a Working Group due to an urgent need for companies, research centers, and the European Union, to develop a consensus on the optimum standard (scope, content and boundaries) for the next generation still image compression algorithm - JPEG 2000 - which will best serve the short, medium and longer term interests of the European economy.

The Working Group will arrange three European seminars in line with the JPEG 2000 standardization process in order to:

Co-ordinate the European dimension of JPEG2000.
Ensure support for European initiatives in the standardization process.
Align with similar initiatives within the European Commission.
Establish links to planned activities within the European Commission.
Consider possible related impacts on the 5^th framework program.

The Working Group will be involved in preparatory and support activities in order to increase interaction between European inputs to the global standardization (ISO) of JPEG2000. To achieve this we will be organizing 3 European seminars and participating in the global ISO meetings. There are 3 ISO meetings planned within the project duration, March 1998, July 1998 and November 1998. The European seminars will be arranged prior to the ISO meeting and are scheduled as follows:

March 1998	First European JPEG 2000 seminar
June 1998	Second European JPEG 2000 seminar
October 1998	Third European JPEG 2000 seminar

Contact Point

Professor Andrew Perkis

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Department of Telecommunications Tel. +47 73 592383

N-7034 Trondheim Fax. +47 73 592640

Norway e-mail. andrew@tele.ntnu.no

Participants

Participant	Country	Role
NTNU	N	C
Canon C.R.F.	F	P
CTI	GR	P
DTU	DK	P
Elysium	UK	P
EPFL	CH	P
Ericsson Radio Systems	S	P
Ericsson Telecom AB	S	P
Philips Research	NL	P
Q-TEAM	DE	P
Netimage	F	P

Starting date and duration

Starting date:	1^st March 1998
Duration:	18 months

Last updated: January 4, 1999

	Open European JPEG2000 promotion
	EUSIPCO-98 Satellite Event
	See the EUROSTILL group at work (snapshots)