nitzberg@brauer.harvard.edu (Mark Nitzberg) (04/11/90)
Can anyone direct me to a source for a layman's description of image compression methods based on the discrete cosine transform, and perhaps even some code that implements it (or a board that does it in hardware)? Mark Nitzberg nitzberg@zariski.harvard.edu
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (04/12/90)
A image compression method which uses discrete cosine transforms was adopted by JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) under the CCITT. There's even a startup company, called C-Cube which implements it on a chip. C-Cube sells a development board for the Machintosh. One of the founders gave a talk out here last week. Quite impressive. NTSC video resolution images compressed 20:1 in real time by a $150 chip. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics 6 Trillium Lane Stanford University San Carlos, CA 94070 (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) (415) 723-9127