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Who supports the project ?

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The library has been created and is still maintained by the Image and Signal Processing Group (ISPGroup), in the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), with the support of intoPIX. It has been supported and partially funded in the past by the CNES and the CS company. The JPWL module has been developed by the Digital Signal Processing Lab (DSPLab) of the University of Perugia, Italy (UNIPG).

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The library has been created and is still maintained by the Image and Signal Processing Group (ISPGroup), in the Université de Louvain (UCL). It has been long-term supported by intoPIX and also punctually by +

+It currently benefits from a funding from several academic institutions and archival organizations: + +This funding has been made possible thanks to the support of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). As announced here, 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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