<s>
OpenJPEG	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
library	B-Library
to	O
encode	O
and	O
decode	O
JPEG	O
2000	O
images	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
subsequently	O
adopted	O
by	O
ImageMagick	B-Language
instead	O
of	O
JasPer	B-Language
in	O
6.8.8-2	O
and	O
approved	O
as	O
new	O
reference	O
software	O
for	O
this	O
standard	O
in	O
July	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenJPEG	B-Language
is	O
a	O
fork	O
of	O
libj2k	O
,	O
a	O
JPEG-2000	O
codec	O
library	B-Library
written	O
by	O
David	O
Janssens	O
during	O
his	O
master	O
thesis	O
at	O
University	O
of	O
Louvain	O
(	O
UCLouvain	O
)	O
in	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlike	O
JasPer	B-Language
,	O
another	O
open-source	B-Application
JPEG	O
2000	O
implementation	O
,	O
OpenJPEG	B-Language
fully	O
respects	O
the	O
JPEG	O
2000	O
specification	O
and	O
can	O
compress	O
and	O
decompress	O
lossless	B-Algorithm
16-bit	O
images	O
.	O
</s>
