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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the original JPEG group (1986 to 1992) of 15 to 20 experts and its Chairmen who directly
contributed to the development of the JPEG Recommendation | International Standard.
Thanks also to the parents of the JPEG: CCITT SGVIII and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2/WG8. These expert groups set the
requirements for the JPEG draft, founded JPEG with its own pragmatic rules and procedures and, after
completion of the work, picked up the JPEG-8 revision 8 specification and turned it into one of the first joint
text Recommendation | International Standard documents, ITU-T T.81 (1992) | ISO/IEC 10918-1:1993 [1].
Gratitude is due to the ESPRIT 563 [6] PICA [7] project on photovideotex image compression algorithms,
which developed several compression algorithm proposals, test images and the JPEG test- and selection
infrastructure (KTAS, Copenhagen).
Gratitude is also due to Tom Lane, founder and chair of the IJG, for picking-up the JPEG-8 Specification in 1990
and releasing the first IJG software code in September 1991.
Credit is owed to the various application groups who successfully incorporated the JPEG format into their
different applications, thus making JPEG one of the most used and most successful standards in the world.

REFERENCES
[1] ITU-T T.81 (1992) | ISO/IEC 10918-1:1993, Information technology – Digital compression and coding
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[6] Hudson, G.P. (1986). The European ESPRIT 563 Project, ISO TC97/SC2/WG8 N266, Boston.
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[9] ITU-T H.320 (2004), Narrow-band visual telephone systems and terminal equipment.
[10] ITU-T H.261 (1993), Video codec for audiovisual services at p  64 kbit/s.

[11] ITU-T T.80 (1992), Common components for image compression and communication - Basic principles.
[12] JPEG-8-R8, JPEG Technical Specification, JPEG Committee, 14 August 1990.
[13] ITU-T T.120 (2007), Data protocols for multimedia conferencing.
[14] ITU-T T.30 (2005), Procedures for document facsimile transmission in the general switched telephone
network.
[15] ITU-T T.4 (2003), Standardization of Group 3 facsimile terminals for document transmission.

[16] ITU-T T.563 (1996), Terminal characteristics for Group 4 facsimile apparatus.
[17] ITU-T T.42 (2003), Continuous-tone colour representation method for facsimile.

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