Term: JBIG (JBIG2)

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Term: JBIG (JBIG2)

Definition:

The Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group (JBIG) image compression standard is a lossless image compression standard (ISO/IEC standard 11544 and as ITU-T recommendation T.82) for compression of binary images, particularly for faxes. JBIG offers a significant improvement in compression over the Fax Group 4 standard.

Category:

Image

Resource:

ISO/IEC 11544:1993
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=

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