SMS scnews item created by Duncan Sutherland at Wed 31 Aug 2011 1252
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 1 Sep 2011
Calendar1: 1 Sep 2011 1300-1400
CalLoc1: New Law 020
Auth: duncans@p80714.pc.maths.usyd.edu.au

SUMS: Zhang -- The inner workings of JPEG

In the digital world JPEG has become synonymous with photographs.  It is capable of
achieving high compression with little perceived detriment in image quality, despite
being lossy.  The compression method uses knowledge about the physiology of the human
eye as well as some mathematics, and we will explore a bit of both in this talk.