JPEG - Idea and Practice

Contents

 * /Foreword/

The idea

 * /The colour components/
 * /The transform and quantization/
 * /The compression and encoding/
 * /The decoding and drawing/
 * /Miscellaneous/

The practice

 * /Introduction/
 * /The Huffman coding/
 * /The header part/
 * /The guidelines and the implementation/
 * /Program for making a grey scale file/
 * /Program for drawing a grey scale picture/
 * /The two programs for a colour picture/
 * /When the width or the height is not divisible by 8/

Back matter

 * /Appendix 1: Summary of the header segments/
 * /Appendix 2: Programs for calculating code lengths from the actual picture/
 * /References/
 * /Download programs/