Mainly built for decoding Lossy WebP compression. WebP and Vp8 both use the same method for decoding frames.
So, vp8decoder is used for webp image reading.
Refer to riff/webp specs from Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/riff_container
Refer to WebPImageReaderSpi that reads the image using javax.imageio.
Also, there are unit tests written for testing the webp image reader.