Bug#624346: ITP: charls -- An optimized implementation of the JPEG-LS standard for lossless and near-lossless image compression

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>


* Package name    : charls
  Version         : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : Jan de Vaan <jan.devaan@versatel.nl>
* URL             : http://charls.codeplex.com
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : An optimized implementation of the JPEG-LS standard for lossless and near-lossless image compression
 JPEG-LS (ISO-14495-1/ITU-T.87) is a standard derived from the Hewlett Packard LOCO algorithm. JPEG LS has low complexity (meaning fast compression) and high compression ratios, similar to JPEG 2000. JPEG-LS is more similar to the old Lossless JPEG than to JPEG 2000, but interestingly the two different techniques result in vastly different performance characteristics.