Why JPEG compression processes image by 8x8 blocks?

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rcp picture rcp · May 28, 2012 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

Why JPEG compression processes image by 8x8 blocks instead of applying Discrete Cosine Transform to the whole image?

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Nick picture Nick · May 17, 2013

8 X 8 was chosen after numerous experiments with other sizes.

The conclusions of experiments are: 1. Any matrices of sizes greater than 8 X 8 are harder to do mathematical operations (like transforms etc..) or not supported by hardware or take longer time. 2. Any matrices of sizes less than 8 X 8 dont have enough information to continue along with the pipeline. It results in bad quality of the compressed image.

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