Desired Image Compression algorithms in scikit-image

[Stéfan van der Walt]

Hi Ankit

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Ankit Agrawal <aaaagrawal at gmail.com> wrote:
>        As a part of my proposal on integrating Discrete Wavelet Transforms
> and related algorithms into scipy.signal, I need some suggestions on some
> image compression algorithms that I can implement into scikit-image in 3
> weeks. JPEG 2000 that uses DCT is one that is on the cards currently. Anyone
> with some knowledge on wavelet based image compression techniques can
> comment about some popular algorithms in this area. I am looking into a few
> papers but I found the literature on this topic relatively dispersed.

Glad to hear you may be working (partially) on scikit-image again this summer!

JPEG2000 is perfect--well established and already supported by external tools.

Good luck,
Stéfan