Full form of JPEG
JPG or JPEG Full form is Joint Photographic Expert Group.
What is JPEG?
JPG/JPEG is the Joint working group of International Standardization Organization (ISO) and standard image method for containing the compressed image data. JPEG is the joint committee of the ISO and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). And it was originally released by the ISO standard in 1992.
It is most often used with its extension .jpg or .jpeg. JPEG is a bitmap compression format which is usually used for lossy compression techniques because some information lost during compression. So, even reducing the Joint Photographic Expert Group (Full form of JPEG) file size, it maintain the image quality. JPEG image sharing can be done quick and efficient.
The Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG or JPG full from) JPEG extension is widely used by Photo sharing devices and by digital cameras.
What is the difference between JPG and JPEG?
JPEG and JPG meaning are almost same. There is actually no difference between JPG and JPEG formats. But the only difference between them is the number of characters being used. JPG became shortened from JPEG because in the earlier versions of Windows, there is three letter extension is required for file names. But now in newer versions of Windows accept more characters in file extension.
However, .jpg extension was widely used by most of the people and it is still the most commonly used extension.
Features of JPEG
It can be modified into many other formats
JPEG was established by Joint Photographic Expert group
The extensions used for JPEG format are: .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jif, .jfif
There are about 29 distinct coding processes for JPEG scheme
JPEG file format is of ISO standard 10918
Data format is not depend on its image content, resolution and aspect ratio
JPEG compresses the image into stream of bytes and it decompress back into image.
JPEG compression works with multiple files at the same time
Advantages
The advantages of Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG full form) format are described below:
- JPEG image can be transferred easily in computer, mobile devices etc.
- JPEG format supports wide range of colours and all hardware tools like printer
- Compatible with almost all browsers
- JPEG compression maintain the image quality
- The unique compression of JPEG is used widely on mobile devices, computers, camera devices etc.
- It occupies less spaces compared to other formats