Abstract
Image Compression technology has been recently adopted in multimedia application to reduce storage space and increase transmission speed on network. The most recent image compression standard is JPEG2000, which is consisted of Discrete Wavelet Transform and Embedded Block Coding with Optimized Truncation. The JPEG2000 standard is intended as the successor to JPEG for the advantages of better compression ratio, resolution scalability, quality scalability, error resilience, region of interest coding, and etc. The purpose of this thesis is to put image compression into practice with a JPEG2000-like algorithm.