A graphics file format for editing still images, as well as color facsimile, desktop publishing, graphic arts, and medical imaging. A symmetrical compression technique, JPEG is equally expensive, processor-intensive, and time consuming in terms of both compression and decompression. JPEG is a joint standard of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T T.81) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 10918-1). JPEG involves a lossy compression mechanism using discrete cosine transform (DCT). Compression rates of 100:1 can be achieved, although the loss is noticeable at that level. Compression rates of 10:1 or 20:1 yield little degradation in image quality. See also compression, DCT, GIF, ISO, ITU-T, lossy compression, PNG, and symmetric. 96 120 6.312 Mbps 7.786 Mbps