JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is an international compression standard for continuoustone still image, both grayscale and

color. This standard is designed to support a wide variety of applications for continuous-tone images. Because of the distinct requirement for each of the applications, the JPEG standard have two basic compression methods. The DCT-based mathod is specified for lossy compression, and the predictive mathod is specified for lossless compression. A simple lossy technique called baseline, which is a DCT-based methods, has been widely used today and is sufficient for a large number of applications. In this paper, we will simply introduce the JPEG standard and focuses on the baseline method.