Image compression is an essential technique for efficient transmission and storage of images. The demands for transmission and storage of multimedia data are increasing exponentially. A gray scale ...

As the application of machine vision grows for inspecting electronic products during manufacturing, demand increases for better ways to archive and transmit the resulting images more efficiently.

In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing ...

Given the image on the left, two study participants made the reconstruction on the right. People preferred their reconstruction to the image at the center, a highly compressed version of the original ...

Learn how to compress images and JPEG files to reduce file size, speed up your website and maintain image quality.

The discrete cosine transform (DCT) remains a cornerstone of modern image and video compression techniques, enabling the decomposition of visual data into frequency components that can be efficiently ...

A compression technique that does not decompress digital data back to 100% of the original. Lossy methods can provide high degrees of compression and result in smaller compressed files, but some ...

Back in 1988, the first work began on video compression standards that would ultimately result in MPEG. The Motion Picture Experts Group, in cooperation with the International Organization for ...