JPF File Documentation

Overview

Feature Value
Format Name JPEG 2000
File Extension .jp2
MIME Type image/jp2
Wavelet Transformation Yes
Compression Lossy and lossless
Color Models Supported Grayscale, RGB, YCbCr
Bit Depths Up to 16 bits per channel
Scalability Resolution, quality, component, and region-of-interest scalability
Progressive Decoding Yes
Tile-Based Structure Yes
Error Resilience Error correction via coding packets
Metadata Support Yes
Multi-component Transformation Yes
Animation Support No
Transparency Support No
International Standard ISO/IEC 15444
Effective for Still images, large images, scalable images
Creator Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
Released 2000
Main Advantages High compression efficiency, scalability, robustness