HD Photo

[John_E_3]

Are there any plans to add an HD Photo (previous known as Windows Media Photo) codec to IPP?

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

Hello,

we do not have a firm plan for developing HD Photo functionality yet, it depends on many different factors. Do you see any advantages for that new technology in comparison with JPEG/JPEG2000 whichare an international standards?

Regards,
Vladimir

[John_E_3]

Vladimir:

Thank you for your reply. According to the HD Photo description on http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/wmphoto.mspx
HD Photo delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding. HD Photo delivers image quality that is comparable to JPEG-2000 and more than twice the quality of JPEG.

Microsoft has submitted HD Photo to the JPEG committee under the name "JPEG XR". Please see http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jul07/07-31JPEGXRPR.mspx

I am currently using JPEG compression based on the IPP Library, but the two factors above make HD Photo an attractive alternative. However, I have not been able to find a very efficient SIMD optimized codec for HD Photo. That is why I think HD Photo would be a nice complement to the IPP Library.

John Ens

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

Hi John,

yes, we also saw that features declared for HDPhoto. There is no a firm plan to implement it in IPP yet, but you can submit your feature request to Intel Premier Support, so it will be revised at the next version planning stage.

Regards,
Vladimir