JPEG - Idea and Practice

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Table of Contents:
1 Foreword
1.1 Parts One and Two
1.2 About the Pictures
2 The colour components
3 The transform and quantization
4 The compression and encoding
5 The decoding and drawing
6 Miscellaneous
7 Introduction
8 The Hu?man coding
9 The header part
10 The guidelines and the implementation
11 Program for making a grey scale ?le
12 Program for drawing a grey scale picture
13 The two programs for a colour picture
14 When the width or the height is not divisible by 8
15 Appendix 1: Summary of the header segments
16 Appendix 2: Programs for calculating code lengths from the actual
picture
17 References
18 Download programs
19 Contributors
List of Figures
III Contents
20 Licenses
20.1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
20.2 GNU Free Documentation License
20.3 GNU Lesser General Public License