Towards an animated JPEG

Joël Theytaz; Lin Yuan; David McNally; Touradj Ebrahimi

doi:10.1117/12.2240283

28 September 2016 Towards an animated JPEG

Joël Theytaz, Lin Yuan, David McNally, Touradj Ebrahimi

Proceedings Volume 9971, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIX; 99711X (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240283
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, short animated image sequences have become very popular in social networks. Most animated images are represented in GIF format. In this paper we propose an animated JPEG format, called aJPEG, which allows the standard JPEG format to be extended in a backward compatible way in order to cope with animated images. After presenting the proposed format, we illustrate it using two prototype applications: the first in form of a GIF-to-aJPEG converter on a personal computer and the second in form of an aJPEG viewer on a smart phone. The paper also reports the performance evaluation of aJPEG when compared to GIF. Experimental results show that aJPEG outperforms animated GIF in both file size overhead and image quality.

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Joël Theytaz, Lin Yuan, David McNally, and Touradj Ebrahimi "Towards an animated JPEG", Proc. SPIE 9971, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIX, 99711X (28 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240283

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