What is the new image compression standard "JPEG XS" that is expected to be applied to VR, automatic driving vehicle, and space explorer?

A trade fair held in Las Vegas from 7th April 2018National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) ShowHandle image / video processing technology inintoPIXIs a software plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CC "JPEG XS"We demonstrated. JPEG XS is a new standard developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), the developer of the JPEG standard, and is expected to be applied to virtual reality (VR) technology and automatic driving technology.

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The JPEG standard which began development in 1992 can express 16.77 million colors while lossyly compressing the file to about 1/10 of the file. Because the file size can be kept small overwhelmingly than the original image, the JPEG standard spreads around the Internet, "Today it is 10 to 15 billion JPEG a day on social media all over the world It is said that the image is shared ", it became a global standard.


About 30 years since the JPEG standard was developed, communication technology and memory capacity have greatly improved, so the JPEG standard research groupJoint Photographic Experts Group(JPEG) has reorganized the JPEG standard into several new standards. One of them, JPEG XS, which began standardization in 2015, assumed that coding was possible with low delay and light weight, with the transfer of uncompressed images and moving images in mind. The compression ratio of JPEG XS is 1/6, which is lower than that of JPEG, but the image quality is improved, it is said that more efficient and faster processing becomes possible. With the completion of the compression technology by intoPIX, standardization of JPEG XS has shifted to the final stage.


Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneTouradj Ebrahimi, who is also a member of JPEG, said, "Even if you compress images with JPEG XS, the image quality is not damaged at all, even if the experts compare the original image / video and the compressed one you can not distinguish I will tell you.

According to Mr. Ebrahimi, JPEG XS is considered to be applicable to drone or automatic driving image recognition because it enables high-speed and efficient processing while suppressing deterioration of image quality. In addition, because the power consumption by processing is suppressed, the European Space Agency (ESA) is also expected to apply JPEG XS to space exploration technology. Furthermore, when JPEG XS is applied to VR technology, it is possible to display images and moving images quickly according to the movement of the head of the user, so "VR sickness" caused by the displacement of head movement and the scene in the headset It is also suggested that you can resolve the problem.

bySamantha Cristoforetti