<human>:  Does the JPEG acronym stand for a joint committee?
<bot>: Yes, JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, a joint committee that developed the JPEG lossy compression method for reducing the size of digital images. The term "JPEG" is an initialism/acronym for the Joint Photographic Experts Group. They created the standard in 1992, so the Joint Photographic Experts Group created and maintains the JPEG, etc.