Wallace presents the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) still picture standard [20]. He describes encoding and decoding algorithms and discusses some relations to the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
Patel, Smith and Rowe design and implement a software decoder for MPEG video bitstreams [14]. They give performance comparisons for several different bit rates and platforms. They claim that memory bandwidth is the bottleneck for the decoder, not processor speed. They also give a cost analysis of three different machines for doing MPEG.
We expand compression research by providing careful CPU load measurements of JPEG compression and decompression on a Sun IPX. In addition, we predict the effects of compression on network, processor and disk performance.