TIFF to JPEG2000: report on migration and characterisation experiments

This report describes a number of experiments on the characterisation (i.e. extraction of the ‘significant characteristics’) of JPEG2000 files. The objective of these experiments is twofold: first, the experiments serve to assess the performance of existing characterisation tools with JPEG2000 files. Second, the characterisation results provide information that can be used to verify the behaviour of tools that are used for the creation and processing of JPEG2000 files.

The used methodology is very simple: starting out with a simple test image (in TIFF format), I converted this image to JPEG2000 using a number of different tools. The resulting images were then analysed using different characterisation tools, and the characteristics of the images were compared to those of the source image.