Kakadu (Software) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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. It is developed by David Taubman from University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also an author of EBCOT, one of the algorithms used in JPEG 2000. The software library is named after Kakadu National Park. It is used by several applications, such as for example Apple Inc. QuickTime. Kakadu library is heavy optimized and is a fully compliant implementation. Also, it has built-in multi-threading. In a 2007 study Kakadu outperformed the JasPer library in terms of speed.