Joint Photographic Experts Group
<image, body, file format, standard> (JPEG) The original name of the committee that designed the standard
image compression algorithm.
JPEG is designed for compressing either full-colour or
grey-scale digital images of "natural", real-world scenes.
It does not work so well on non-realistic images, such as cartoons or line drawings.
JPEG does not handle compression of black-and-white (1 bit-per-pixel) images or moving pictures.
Standards for compressing those types of images are being worked on by other committees, named
JBIG and
MPEG.
Home (http://www.jpeg.org/).
Filename extension: .jpg, .jpeg.
See also
PJPEG.
