How to accelerate JPEG compression and decompression

It is possible to accelerate JPEG compression and decompression by replacing the default libjpeg[1] library with the libjpeg-turbo[2]library that uses the Arm® NEON technology.

1 How to check the libjpeg-turbo installation

 dpkg -l | grep jpeg
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Hardware accelerated JPEG compression/decompression library
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2 How to add the libjpeg-turbo in your distribution

Please refer to the OpenEmbedded libjpeg-turbo recipe documentation[3]

3 References

  1. http://libjpeg.sourceforge.net/ libjpeg official web site
  2. https://libjpeg-turbo.org/ libjpeg-turbo official web site
  3. https://layers.openembedded.org/rrs/recipedetail/OE-Core/45003/ OpenEmbedded libjpeg-turbo recipe documentation