This document discusses various image compression standards and techniques. It begins with an introduction to image compression, noting that it reduces file sizes for storage or transmission while attempting to maintain image quality. It then outlines several international compression standards for binary images, photos, and video, including JPEG, MPEG, and H.261. The document focuses on JPEG, describing how it uses discrete cosine transform and quantization for lossy compression. It also discusses hierarchical and progressive modes for JPEG. In closing, the document presents challenges and results for motion segmentation and iris image segmentation.