   jpeg2000 book recomendation?
  I need a book on jpeg2000, what do you recommend?I saw this book at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471484229/qid=1118665992/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-6183462-7744968?v=glance&s=booksHowever it says its for graduate?I have a course about signal and image processing in my university and I have all the prerequests for this course. In this course they teach the theory behind jpeg compression. Does it mean that I have the math required for understanding this book?I would appreaciate help on this matter.Thanks in advance.   
  Understanding JPEG helps a lot.JPEG2000 still consists of the three steps- fancy transform,- quantisation and- coding.In JPEG2000, you do- wavelet transforms instead of discrete cosine transforms and- arithmetic coding instead of Huffman coding.I don't know how the quantisation exactly works, though, but I think they use EZT coding which is quite easy to understand. There's also a nice introductory paper available:Bryan E. Usevitch “A tutorial on Modern Lossy wavelet Image compression: Foundations of JPEG-2000” IEEE signal processing Magazine, September 2001Unfortunately, I've just found out that it's password protected. It used to be free earlier.