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Intelligent image compression technology for JPEG2000

Submitted by Karthik on 22 March, 2004 - 07:21

Technology Review reports [Free reg. required] on a new intelligent image compression technology being developed (and available for licensing) by Xerox.

“Xerox is licensing its core technology for the Mixed-Raster Content Imaging model (MRC). The MRC imaging model is a central component of current and emerging standards for the communication of rasterized documents: ITU T.44 (MRC), T.37 (Internet Fax), JPEG2000, and JBIG2. The MRC imaging model represents a document as three "layers": a Foreground plane, a Mask plane and a Background plane. By distributing the image content according to type across these three layers, we can optimally represent a rasterized document.”

More information on how it actually works, can be found here.