The app’s aim is to make images load faster on web pages. Reducing the image’s size is the right direction to take. The app runs entirely from the browser, even though it carries heavy operations in ...

Google has a new, experimental web app for you to try: Squoosh. It uses the latest in image compression technology to cram your pictures into smaller file sizes with a minimal loss of quality, but ...

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 ...

The “middle-out” algorithm that has its roots in the most infamous (and probably funniest) scene in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may have been fictional, but something like it can be found in Lepton, a cool ...

Figure 1. JPEG 2000 applications. Click here to see an enlarged diagram. The JPEG 2000 standard, finalized in 2001, defines a new image-coding scheme using compression techniques based on wavelet ...

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 ...