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JPEG 2000

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Also: JP2 · J2K

Wavelet-based JPEG successor (2000), dominant in cinema and medicine.

ISO/IEC 15444. Uses Discrete Wavelet Transform instead of DCT. Never adopted on the web, but mandatory for digital cinema projection (DCI/DCP) and DICOM medical workflows.

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Sources:ISO/IEC 15444-1·jpeg.org/jpeg2000

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