When you think of image processing, you probably don’t think of the Arduino. [Jan Gromes] did, though. Using a camera and an Arduino Mega, [Jan] was able to decode input from an ...

As [Larry] discusses in a blog post on the topic, JPEG libraries already exist for the Arduino platform. However, many of these are aimed at 8-bit platforms with tiny amounts of RAM.

Images make up 65 percent of the bytes transmitted per Web page, according to Google. WebP was designed to improve the compression offered by the widely used lossy JPEG format.