Kakadu (software)

Kakadu (software)
Original author(s) David Taubman
Initial release At least 2002
Stable release 7.7
Development status Active
Written in C++
Operating system Unix/Windows/OSX and others
Platform IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC, ARM architecture, SPARC
Type Graphic software
License Proprietary
Website http://www.kakadusoftware.com/

Kakadu is a closed-source library to encode and decode JPEG 2000 images. It implements the ISO/IEC 15444-1 standard fully in part 1, and partly in parts 2-3. Kakadu is a trademark of NewSouth Innovations Ltd.

Kakadu was developed by and continues to be maintained by David Taubman from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He is also an author of EBCOT, one of the algorithms used in JPEG 2000. [1]

The software library is named after Kakadu National Park.

It is used by several applications, such as for example Apple Inc. QuickTime. It is also used in Google Earth and the online implementation thereof[2] [3] as well as Internet Archive.[4]

Kakadu library is heavy optimized and is a fully compliant implementation. Also, it has built-in multi-threading. [1] In a 2007 study Kakadu outperformed the JasPer library in terms of speed. [5] A more thorough comparison done in 2005, however, has shown that Kakadu does not achieve the best performance, in terms of compression quality.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Peter Schelkens; Athanassios Skodras; Touradj Ebrahimi (12 October 2009). The JPEG 2000 Suite. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 458–459. ISBN 978-0-470-72147-6. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Google Inc., Legal Notices for Google Maps/Google Earth and Google Maps/Google Earth APIs
  3. ↑ Google Maps
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/post/1022297/kakadu-error-ppm-image-file-must-start-with-the-magic-string-p6
  5. ↑ Shih-Wei Liao; Shih-Hao Hung; Chia-Heng Tu; Jen-Hao Chen (December 2007). "Scalable Lossless High Definition Image Coding on Multicore Platforms" (PDF). Embedded and ubiquitous computing: international conference, EUC 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, December 17–20, 2007 : proceedings (Springer): 746–747. ISSN 0302-9743.
  6. ↑ MSU JPEG 2000 Image Codecs Comparison

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