Touradj Ebrahimi is of Swiss-Iranian nationality .
It was developed from 1997 to 2000 by a Joint Photographic Experts Group ( JPEG ) committee chaired by Swiss-Iranian engineer Touradj Ebrahimi ( later the JPEG president ) , with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform ( DCT ) based JPEG standard ( created in 1992 ) with a newly designed , wavelet-based method .
JPEG 2000