JPEG and MPEG compression standards
Compresión de imagen JPEG y vídeo MPEG
- Date
- 1992 · confidence high
- Place
- JPEG and MPEG groups (ISO/IEC), working out of Geneva, Switzerland
- Credited to
- JPEG committee (Gregory Wallace, IBM) and MPEG (Leonardo Chiariglione); discrete cosine transform by Nasir Ahmed (1972)
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Open standards that compress photographs and digital video by removing perceptual redundancy. They made digital photography, the DVD, digital television and internet video possible.
What it led to
- Digital photography and its exchange on the web
- Digital television, the DVD and streaming
- Modern codecs (H.264, AV1) and video conferencing
Built on
- discrete cosine transform
- Huffman coding
Made possible
- Digital camera1975
- DVD1995
- Video streaming (YouTube, Netflix)2005
- videoconferencing