Whether you’re running a website or using social media, images are crucial. They provide a visual representation of your brand and its offerings, catching the eye of prospective customers. However, if ...

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 ...

In this article I will take a look at Google Photos’ new photo compression performance. I’ve been using a program called JPEGmini for a couple years now to compress my JPEG images. Its compression of ...

The Guetzli project shows there's room to improve the venerable compression tech. Too bad Google's software is slow and not so practical for most sites right now. Google says its Guetzli compression ...

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 ...

Yes, I understand why the initial compression of a bitmap (not necessarily a .BMP) to a JPEG is lossy, via the quantization step after DCT. But if I decompress a JPEG back to a new bitmap, and then re ...

JPEG for photos, PNG for the rest is a habit, not a strategy.

Image compression, once the domain of the PC, is becoming pervasive in embedded environments. This trend is largely a result of the increased processing power and multimedia capabilities of new DSPs.