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| Original author(s) | David Taubman |
|---|---|
| Initial release | at least 2002 |
| Stable release | 6.4.1 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Multi. Unix/Windows and other |
| Platform | x86, ? |
| Type | graphic software |
| License | closed source |
| Website | www |
Kakadu is an closed-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. It implements ISO/IEC 15444-1: part 1 (fully), part 2 (partly), part 3 (partly). It is developed by David Taubman from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He also is a author of EBCOT, algorithm used in jpeg2000.
Kakadu is named after Kakadu park.
It is used in Apple QuickTime.
Kakadu library is heavy optimized and is fully compliant implementation. Also, it has build-in multithreading. In the study of 2007, kakadu outperforms JasPer jpeg2000 library.
See also
Books
- "JPEG2000: image compression fundamentals, standards, and practice", Volume 1 By David S. Taubman, Michael W. Marcellin. ISBN 0-7923-7519-X Kakadu 2.2 ships with this book, and uses a lot of techniques described in it
References
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=4eOnNwXah7EC&pg=PA458&dq=kakadu+jpeg2000&hl=en&ei=GMjBTPGsCIGq8AbTjqnBBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=kakadu%20jpeg2000&f=false
- http://books.google.com/books?id=LUqKByrcBb4C&pg=PA746&dq=kakadu+jpeg2000&hl=en&ei=GMjBTPGsCIGq8AbTjqnBBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=kakadu%20jpeg2000&f=false
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