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People are just learning what JPEG stands for – and the raunchy first image that was chosen as test Jona Jaupi , Technology and Science Reporter Published : 20:00, 12 Apr 2023 ...
French programmer Fabrice Bellard has come up with a graphics format he believes can "replace the JPEG image format." Bellard’s BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format boasts a compelling quality ...
Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent—or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant.
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), a committee that maintains various JPEG image-related standards, has started exploring a way to involve AI to build a new compression standard. In a recent ...
Today’s popular image formats – JPEG, GIF and PNG – were developed in the 80s and 90s when there was no mobile or app traffic, let alone responsive web design or 4K HDR screens.
Improvements to the ubiquitous JPEG image format used across the internet will bring global bandwidth savings of 30 per cent, say the creators of the new technology, who have made it royalty-free.
As a result, images saved as GIFs are limited to just 256 colours, compared to around16 million possible colours in a JPEG image. This gives GIFs a grainy look full of unrealistic colours.
Google has developed a new open-source image compression algorithm that it says can reduce the size of JPEG images by 35 percent. The algorithm, dubbed Guetzil (that's Swiss German for cookie), is ...