Complexity Increasing
• New standards have portmanteau nature
– Many parts, many options, as already noted in the case of PDF
• JPEG2000
– Part 1.  .jp2 (core lossless and lossy compression schemes for
continuous tone, replacement for JPEG)
– Part 2.  .jpx (extensions, including more capabilities for embedding
metadata)
– Part 6.  .jpm (multi-layer images, can embed other bitstream
encodings, including bitonal)
• MPEG-4
– Many ‘profiles’ for different contexts
• Which parts of these standards will be widely adopted?