JPEG
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 14 June 1993
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NAME
jpeg - JPEG compression and decompression
SYNOPSIS
jpeg -iw ImageWidth -ih ImageHeight [-JFIF] [-q(l) Q-Factor]
[-a] [-b] [-d] [-k predictortype] [-n] [-o] [-y] [-z]
[-p PrecisionValue] [-t pointtransform]
[-r ResyncInterval] [-s StreamName]
[[-ci ComponentIndex1] [-fw FrameWidth1] [-fh FrameHeight1]
[-hf HorizontalFrequency1] [-vf VerticalFrequency1]
ComponentFile1]
[[-ci ComponentIndex2] [-fw FrameWidth2] [-fh FrameHeight2]
[-hf HorizontalFrequency2] [-vf VerticalFrequency2]
ComponentFile2]
....
DESCRIPTION
jpeg
is a still-image compression/decompression program that performs
JPEG encoding and decoding of multiple raster-scanned files.
OPTIONS
- ImageWidth
-
specifies the width of the original image. This should correspond to
the width of the widest component and, thus, the width of the
``original image''. All components have widths roughly corresponding
to an integer decimation ratio from this specification.
- ImageHeight
-
specifies the height of the tallest component. This
corresponds to the height of the ``original image''.
- -JFIF
-
specifies that a JFIF header is placed on the encoded stream. This is
unnecessary for decoding.
- Q-Factor
-
option specifies a multiplicative factor for the quantization: each
quantization coefficient of the default matrix is scaled by
(Q-Factor/50). A Q-Factor of 0 is the same thing as a Q-Factor of 50
because it disables this function.
-q
specifies an 8 bit
quantization matrix;
-ql
specifies a 16 bit quantization matrix,
useful for 12 bit data.
- -a
-
enables the double-precision floating point Reference DCT. (Default
is Chen DCT.)
- -b
-
enables the Lee DCT. (Default is Chen DCT.)
- -d
-
enables decoding. See below.
- -k predictortype
-
The lossless predictor type, specified as an integer between 1-7.
If specified, then lossless mode is used.
- -n
-
This option specifies that the files should not be transmitted in
interleaved format.
- -o
-
signals that the command interpreter will read from the standard
input.
- -p
-
Specifies the precision. Normally should be between 2-16 for
lossless; 8 or 12 for DCT. If it is specified as a number greater
than 8 then the input is considered to be unsigned shorts (16 bits,
msb first). Not aggressively checked.
- -t pointtransform
-
Specifies the shifting (right) upon loading input and shifting (left)
upon writing input. Generally used by the lossless mode only. Can
be used by the DCT mode to add or subtract bits.
- -y
-
for decoding only, signals that
no
resynchronization is enabled,
thus ignore any markers found in the data stream.
- -z
-
enables use of default Huffman tables. This converts the coding from a
two-pass system using the first pass to generate custom tables to a
one-pass system using internal default tables. With this option, the
compression speed is nearly doubled, but because the internal tables
are not custom to the image, the compressed file size increases
slightly.
- ResyncInterval
-
specifies a resync (restart)
interval for the input file--if set to 0 (default), resynchronization
is disabled; otherwise it signifies the number of MDU
between a resync marker.
- StreamName
-
is the place to load(decoder)/store(encoder)
the coded image--if unspecified it defaults to
ComponentFile1.jpg.
For every component in the image we have:
- ComponentIndex
-
describes the component index where the file data should be associated
with. The possible values are between 0 and 255. As a rule Y is in
1; U is in 2; V is in 3. The file specfications, if left undisturbed,
will result in component location of 1 for the first component file, 2
for the second component file, and so on. If
-ci
is specified for the
previous component file, then the next component index defaults to the
previous component index plus 1.
- FrameWidth
-
describes the actual width of the component. This should be
determinable by the size of the original image (ImageHeight and
ImageWidth) and the frequency sampling of that component.
This program assumes that the sampling component will be round
up
to the nearest integer and other programs may not
necessarily follow that convention, we allow precise specification of
the FrameWidth. The program will notify the user if the
framewidth and frameheight specifications do not correspond to
a logical MDU pattern and thus will refuse to take the input
(in fact, sometimes rounding down will not result in a logical MDU pattern).
- FrameHeight
-
describes the actual height of the component. Multiplied together with
FrameWidth, this should equal the file size of the component. See the
above discussion on the actual specification.
- Hor-Frequency
-
specifies the block sampling frequency of
the component in the horizontal direction for every MDU transmitted.
- Ver-Frequency
-
specifies the block sampling frequency of
the component in the vertical direction. When multiplied together with
the Horizontal frequency, it corresponds to the number of blocks of
that component in the MDU.
- ComponentFilen
-
represents the directory path location of the nth component file.
EXAMPLES
In order to encode a set of raster-scanned files:
128x128 in
image.Y;
64x128 in
image.U;
and 64x128 in
image.V
into the file
image.jpg,
the command is
jpeg -iw 128 -ih 128 -hf 2 image.Y image.U image.V -s image.jpg
In order to decode a compressed file in
image.jpg,
type
jpeg -d -s image.jpg
The three output files will be in
image.jpg.1 image.jpg.2 image.jpg.3.
The images can be displayed by the
cv
program.
The images can also be converted to ppm and back through
the programs
cyuv2ppm
and
ppm2cyuv
Those utility programs available by anonymous ftp from
havefun.stanford.edu:pub/cv/CVv1.2.1.tar.Z.
There are many more options within an internal command interpreter.
Please see the accompanying documentation in
doc.ps
for more details.
FTP
jpeg
is available by anonymous ftp from
havefun.stanford.edu:pub/jpeg/JPEGv1.2.tar.Z.
BUGS
Somewhat slower than many commercial implementations,
some bugs are probably lurking around.
Lossless coding and decoding are especially slow.
Please inform the author at achung@cs.stanford.edu if any bugs
are found.
AUTHOR
Andy Hung
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