OpenJPEG improvement plan announcement

_posts/2017-04-27-Faster OpenJPEG is on track.md

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+Good news for OpenJPEG and its community !
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+Starting May 1st, a 4-month improvement plan will take place, thanks to the funding provided by five well known academic institutions and archival organizations, namely:
+- [Wellcome Trust](https://wellcome.ac.uk/)
+- [Stanford University](https://www.stanford.edu/)
+- [Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland, (KBNL)](https://www.kb.nl/en)
+- [University of Michigan](https://www.umich.edu/)
+- [University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)](http://www.ucla.edu/)
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+This plan has also been made possible thanks to the support of the International Image Interoperability Framework ([IIIF](http://iiif.io/)), the Council on Library and Information Resources ([CLIR](https://www.clir.org/)), [intoPIX](http://www.intopix.com), and of course the Image and Signal Processing Group ([ISPGroup](http://sites.uclouvain.be/ispgroup/index.php/Main/HomePage)) from University of Louvain ([UCL](https://uclouvain.be), Belgium) hosting the OpenJPEG project.
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+The primary goal of this improvement plan is to upgrade OpenJPEG so that it meets the needs of the Digital Library Community. Practically, Even Rouault, already known for its contribution on multi-threading, will work towards improving several aspects of the code. Main focus is the decoding speed, region-of-interest decoding and memory footprint.
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+Project status will be publicly accessible on [Github](https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/projects/1).
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+Faster and better OpenJPEG can therefore be expected by the end of 2017 !
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 <h2 id="who-supports-the-project-">Who supports the project ?</h2>
 
-<p>The library has been created and is still maintained by the Image and Signal Processing Group (<a href="http://sites.uclouvain.be/ispgroup/">ISPGroup</a>), in the Université catholique de Louvain (<a href="http://www.uclouvain.be/en-index.html">UCL</a>), with the support of <a href="http://www.intopix.com">intoPIX</a>. It has been supported and partially funded in the past by the <a href="https://cnes.fr/">CNES</a> and the <a href="http://www.c-s.fr/">CS</a> company. The JPWL module has been developed by the Digital Signal Processing Lab (<a href="http://dsplab.diei.unipg.it/">DSPLab</a>) of the University of Perugia, Italy (<a href="http://www.unipg.it/">UNIPG</a>).</p>
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+<p>The library has been created and is still maintained by the Image and Signal Processing Group (<a href="http://sites.uclouvain.be/ispgroup/">ISPGroup</a>), in the Université de Louvain (<a href="https://www.uclouvain.be">UCL</a>). It has been long-term supported by <a href="http://www.intopix.com">intoPIX</a> and also punctually by
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+  <li>the Digital Signal Processing Lab (<a href="http://dsplab.diei.unipg.it/">DSPLab</a>) of the University of Perugia, Italy (<a href="http://www.unipg.it/">UNIPG</a>) for the JPWL implementation (2006)</li>
+  <li>the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (<a href="https://cnes.fr/">CNES</a>) for the work on OpenJPEG 2.0 (2011-2012)</li>
+</ul>
+It currently benefits from a funding from several academic institutions and archival organizations:
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/">Wellcome Trust</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://www.stanford.edu/">Stanford University</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://www.kb.nl/en">Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland (KBNL)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="https://www.umich.edu/">University of Michigan</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://www.ucla.edu/">University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)</a></li>
+</ul>
+This funding has been made possible thanks to the support of the International Image Interoperability Framework (<a href="http://iiif.io/">IIIF</a>) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (<a href="https://www.clir.org/">CLIR</a>). As announced <a href="./2017/04/27/Faster-OpenJPEG-is-on-track">here</a>, the goal of this funding is to improve the speed and robustness of the library. Releases with better performances are therefore expected by the end of 2017.
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