BOI software
		a novel implementation of the JPEG2000 standard

BOI is a novel implementation of the JPEG2000 (Part 1) standard. Although there are other applications that incorporate the JPEG2000 standard, BOI is designed and programmed with the aim to provide a good basis to test and develop new ideas inside the JPEG2000 core coding system. In the beginnings, our implementation was referred to as J2K, but the name has been changed to honour a beautiful valley of our country (in the same sense as JasPer or Kakadu) and to avoid confusion with another commercial product named J2K. BOI has been developed by the Group on Interactive Coding of Images (GICI) at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). The application design allows the easy incorporation of new algorithms and compression techniques, providing a flexible framework to test new ideas inside the JPEG2000 standard. The GICI group encourages other researchers to use BOI to test their own proposals. A user and a development manual are available and the API is well documented to facilitate the understanding, extension and modification of the application. All the design and implementation details are widely explained in these manuals and the source code is well commented. BOI is distributed with the General Public License (GNU GPL) of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We have tried to make a good design and efforts have been made to develop and implement the application as useful as desirable. However, we could not foresee all the needs of BOI users, so we will thank you for all the suggestions and comments that you can report to us (GICI group).

We hope you enjoy it, GICI group

DOWNLOAD: BOI-1_5.tgz