Both the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standardisation bodies have been releasing recommendations for universal image and video coding algorithms since 1985. The first image coding standard, namely JPEG (Joint Picture Experts Group), was released by ISO in 1989 and later by ITU-T as a recommendation for still image compression. In December 1991, ISO released the first draft of a video coding standard, namely MPEG-1, for audiov