Jpegli: an improved JPEG encoder and decoder implementation

This repository contains a JPEG encoder and decoder implementation that is API and ABI compatible with libjpeg62.

Encoder improvements

Improvements and new features used by the encoder include:

• Support for 16-bit unsigned and 32-bit floating point input buffers.

• Color space conversions, chroma subsampling and DCT are all done in floating point precision, the conversion to integers happens first when producing the final quantized DCT coefficients.

• The desired quality can be indicated by a distance parameter that is analogous to the distance parameter of JPEG XL. The quantization tables are chosen based on the distance and the chroma subsampling mode, with different positions in the quantization matrix scaling differently, and the red and blue chrominance channels have separate quantization tables.

• Adaptive dead-zone quantization. On noisy parts of the image, quantization thresholds for zero coefficients are higher than on smoother parts of the image.

• Support for more efficient compression of JPEGs with an ICC profile representing the XYB colorspace. These JPEGs will not be converted to the YCbCr colorspace, but specialized quantization tables will be chosen for the original X, Y, B channels.

Decoder improvements

• Support for 16-bit unsigned and 32-bit floating point output buffers.

• Non-zero DCT coefficients are dequantized to the expectation value of their respective quantization intervals assuming a Laplacian distribution of the original unquantized DCT coefficients.

• After dequantization, inverse DCT, chroma upsampling and color space conversions are all done in floating point precision, the conversion to integer samples happens only in the final output phase (unless output to floating point was requested).

Usage

When building the project, two binaries, tools/cjpegli and tools/djpegli will be built, as well as a lib/jpegli/libjpeg.so.62.3.0 shared library that can be used as a drop-in replacement for the system library with the same name.

Development process

• More information on testing/build options
• Git guide for jpegli - for developers

Blog post

For more information check out the blog post on the Google Open Source blog.

Contact

If you encounter a bug or other issue with the software, please open an Issue here.