Summary of technology and testbed for JPEG-2000

After nearly three years of international development, the still-image technology for the JPEG-2009 standard is almost fully established. This paper briefly summarizes the developmental history of this standard and discusses its evolution through the Verification Model (VM) experimental and testing software which will become the first fully compliant, fully functional implementation of the new standard. The standard is then described, highlighting the data domains at various stages during the forward compression process. These data domains provide certain flexibilities which offer many of the rich set of features available with JPEG-2000. Some of these features are then described, with algorithmic examples as well as sample output from the VM.