Sunday, April 09, 2006

Digital Image Compression - is JPEG the best ?

One of my friends asked me the other day if there was a way to compress a digital image captured from a digital camera to 50 kb. I did some search and reading to find that JPEG is the most efficient image compression algorithm for digital images. Since JPEG uses lossy compression, it is our call to strike a balance between the quality of the image and size of the image.
Read more about Image compression here
Is there any other digital image compression Algorithm / technique which is better than / destined to be better than JPEG ? Thoughts are welcome as usual

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