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- Subject: JPEG question
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:55:56 GMT
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- I've been reading the new JPEG book by Pennebaker and Mitchell,
- and I'm wondering about implementing the coefficient quantization
- function (where you reduce the number of bits in the coefficients
- before Huffman or arithmetic coding). They give an example table,
- and I notice that most of the numbers in there are not powers of 2.
- Since powers of 2 are so easy to divide by, I would think that
- using them would be desirable here - especially since the JPEG
- standard does not specify what quantization table you must use.
- Does anyone know if quantization tables used in common JPEG
- software (or hardware) are chosen to take advantage of the power
- of 2 divide?
-
- Jim Prater
- NCR Microelectronics
- jim.prater@FtCollins.ncr.com
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