UA Professor Improves Movie Quality

If you go to a movie and notice brilliant color, tack-sharp images and symphonic sound quality, thank UA Regents’ Professor Michael Marcellin. He led the international team that developed JPEG 2000. This new form of film based on data compression technology outperformed competitors worldwide. This new digital cinema is sharper than hi-def TV, difficult to pirate and cheaper than reels of film in metal cans. This break-through technology also improved hundreds of other commercial products, from cell phones and CT scans to the archives of the Library of Congress. With joint appointments in the College of Engineering and the College of Optical Sciences, students laud Marcellin as ”brilliant” and “the best instructor in the universe.”