David Taubman is on the faculty of the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Taubman is the author of the book JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice and has been very influential in the current development of the standard. He is also the author of Kakadu, a commercial library that is advertised as a complete implementation of Part 1 of the standard.

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