Joint Photographic Experts Group
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The formal name of the standard that most people refer to as 'JPEG' is ISO/IEC IS 10918-1 | ITU-T Recommendation T.81, as the document was published by both ISO through its national standards bodies, and CCITT, now called ITU-T. IS 10918 has actually 4 parts -
As well as the standard we created, nearly all of its real world applications require a file format, and example reference software to help implementors. These functions were added to our work by others - the file format was created originally by Eric Hamilton, the then convenor of JPEG as part of his work at C-Cube Microsystems, and was placed by them into the public domain under the name JFIF (available here in the latest version, 1.02). Probably the largest and most important contribution however was the work of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), and Tom Lane in particular. Their Open Source software implementation, as well as being one of the major Open Source packages was key to the success of the JPEG standard and was incorporated by many companies into a variety of products such as image editors and Internet browsers. After creating the JPEG standard described above, the committee started to look at some of the criticisms of the existing standard. High amongst these was the poor quality (and lack of integration) of lossless coding in the standard. With this in mind, the committee developed the JPEG-LS standard - ISO/IEC IS 14495-1 | ITU-T Recommendation T.87.
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