JPEG2000 is the next generation ISO standard compression standard. Compared to existing methods, it offers a set of features and capabilities that are especially appealing to the library and archiving community, and anybody with large collections of images to manage and access. As a result, the Library of Congress and several university libraries and institutions are using or planning to use JPEG2000 in their on-line image collections. This talk will give an overview of JPEG2000, demonstrate its features and capabilities, and describe its use in archiving and imaging applications.

Rob Buckley is a Xerox Research Fellow. He is the Xerox Principal on the U.S. JPEG 2000 committee, was the Project Editor for Part 6 of the JPEG2000 standard, which defines a compound image file format, and has spoken before on the use of JPEG 2000 by archives and libraries. He was also the PI on a Library of Congress contract under which Xerox defined a JPEG2000 profile for the National Digital Newspaper Program. He was the General Co-Chair of the 1st and 2nd IS&T Archiving Conferences in 2004 and 2005.

He has a BScEE from the University of New Brunswick, an MA in Psychology and Physiology from the University of Oxford, and an SM and PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He joined Xerox PARC in 1981, and has held a number of management and research positions in Xerox Research since. [an error occurred while processing this directive]