kakadusoftware

Now with more extensive and convenient support for Java native interfaces. Also now automatically builds bindings for C# and Visual Basic programmers

Now with multi-threaded processing to fully utilize parallel processing resources (multiple CPUs, multi-core CPUs or hyperthreading). You can select the single-threaded processing model from v5.0 and before, or a new multi-threaded processing model (requires only a few extra lines of code in your application).

Kakadu provides a carefully engineered thread scheduler so once you have created a multi-threaded environment and populated it with one thread for each physical/virtual processor on your system, close to 100% utilization of all computational resources is typically achieved.

Kakadu is a complete implementation of the JPEG2000 standard, Part 1, -- i.e., ISO/IEC 15444-1. This new image compression standard is substantially more complex than the existing JPEG standard, both from a computational and a conceptual perspective.

Kakadu also provides a comprehensive implementation for several of the most useful features from Part 2 of the JPEG2000 standard, including general multi-component transforms and arbitrary wavelet transform kernels.

The Kakadu software framework provides a solid foundation for a range of commercial and non-commercial applications. By making a consistent and efficient implementation of the standard widely available for both academic and commercial applications, our aim is to encourage the widespread adoption of JPEG2000.