High bandwidth is essential when transmitting big data volumes in image processing systems. However, available interface technologies like GigE or CoaXPress are the bottleneck when talking about bandwidth. By pre-processing the image in the camera and applying data compression technologies this bottleneck can be mitigated.
When implementing data compression technologies in industrial applications the following questions arise: Are there suitable technologies available for industrial image processing? Are these technologies already established or are they only marginal to mainstream technologies? When investigating these issues, we discover that data compression technology is already all around us. Audio codecs (MP3, Opus, etc.), image codecs (JPG, JPG2000, JPEG-LS, etc.) and video codes for TV and security applications (MPEG, H.264, H.265, etc.) are ubiquitous in our daily life.