JPEG

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Acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created a standard for color and gray scale image compression (in 1992). JPEG was largely responsible for the proliferation of digital images and photos across the Internet and is the default format for most digital cameras. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality. The most common filename extensions for these compressions are .jpg and .jpeg.