Chapter 1 - Data Storage - Section 1.9 - Data Compression - Questions & Exercises - Page 80: 5

$JPEG’s$ baseline standard takes advantage of the fact that the human eye is not as sensitive to changes in color as it is to changes in brightness. Thus it reduces the number of bits used to represent color information without noticeable loss in image quality.

$JPEG’s$ baseline standard takes advantage of the fact that the human eye is not as sensitive to changes in color as it is to changes in brightness. Thus it reduces the number of bits used to represent color information without noticeable loss in image quality.