HTTP streaming of JPEG2000 images

JPEG2000 is a new image compression standard. One of the goals of JPEG2000 is to support large images. Since even the compressed image file can be very big for large images, downloading the entire image can take long rime depending upon the user's connection speed. Thus we propose to use streaming of JPEG2000 images. We use Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) for streaming. The use of HTTP to stream JPEG2000 images will ease its development. Thus JPEG2000 images can be hosted by web server and can be streamed to the client helper application. The solution is scalable. Thus client devices with different capabilities, variety of screen resolutions, heterogeneous bandwidths can all achieve a scalable viewing of the same content stored in a single file. it is also possible to stream only selected region of the image at a particular resolution and decode this partial stream and display it at the client. Thus the proposed approach can handle resolution, quality) and region of interest scalability)features of JPEG2000 images.