JPEG Isn't a file format. Image Analyst Mike Pound explains why not in our first in a series about how JPEG works.

Colourspaces:    • Colourspaces (JPEG Pt0) Computerphile  
Elegant Compression (The LZ Method):    • Elegant Compression in Text (The LZ 7...  
Capturing Digital Images (The Bayer Filter):    • Capturing Digital Images (The Bayer F...  
Discrete Cosine Transform:    • JPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (...  

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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

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