These reasons seem less than compelling to us. From our reading of the literature, at the present, the process of selection of the wavelet filter and quantization matrix to use seem very abritrary. More work will have to be done to try to determine the best wavelet filter and quantization matrix to use for a given class of images, and this is a possible future direction for this project. An obvious extension would be to look at color as well as black and white images. However, this comes at a cost of increased computational complexity.
Implementation is also likely to be more complex.
We think it's an open question whether JPEG 2000 can become widely accepted, especially as a standard for Web imaging, since inertia from existing image formats is great. Lecture given at IEEE Int. Published by Sinauer Associates, 1995. Yeung E. IEEE 1997 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1997. 1, Pages 241 - 244.