Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2018-02-26 Thread Daniel Holbert
ven...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:50:49 AM UTC-4, Josh Aas wrote: >>> Blog post is here: >>> >>> https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image-compression-efficiency/ >>> >>> Study is here: >>&g

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2018-02-26 Thread Daniel Holbert
e. ~Daniel On 2/24/18 9:51 AM, audioscaven...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:50:49 AM UTC-4, Josh Aas wrote: >> Blog post is here: >> >> https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image-compression-efficiency/ >> >> Stud

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2018-02-24 Thread mhoye
On 2018-02-24 12:51 PM, audioscaven...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:50:49 AM UTC-4, Josh Aas wrote: Blog post is here: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image-compression-efficiency/ Study is here: http://people.mozilla.org/~josh

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2018-02-24 Thread audioscavenger
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:50:49 AM UTC-4, Josh Aas wrote: > Blog post is here: > > https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image-compression-efficiency/ > > Study is here: > > http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study_octobe

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2014-12-25 Thread Philip Chee
On 26/12/2014 08:38, mikethedudishd...@gmail.com wrote: >> color blindness > I know this is a common way to call color vision deficiency, but it's > the wrong term. So called "color blindness" really means you see > colors *differently* than other people, sometimes it means you cannot > see some sh

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2014-12-25 Thread mikethedudishdude
> color blindness I know this is a common way to call color vision deficiency, but it's the wrong term. So called "color blindness" really means you see colors *differently* than other people, sometimes it means you cannot see some shades that others do, but it never means you don't see colors.

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-11-28 Thread songofapollo
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 7:34:35 AM UTC-7, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image > Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances > JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". It would help if you would use much more dis

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-09-16 Thread jnoring
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:38:00 PM UTC-6, stone...@gmail.com wrote: > Would be nice if you guys just implemented JPEG2000. It's 2014. Based on what data? > Not only would you get a lot more than a 5% encoding boost, but you'd get > much higher quality images to boot. Based on what data? >

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-09-16 Thread jnoring
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:34:35 AM UTC-6, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image > Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances > JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". Could you post the command lines used for th

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-31 Thread janus
Den torsdag den 24. juli 2014 23.59.58 UTC+2 skrev Josh Aas: > > > I selected 10,000 random JPEGs that we were caching for customers and ran > > them through mozjpeg 2.0 via jpegtran. Some interesting facts: > > > With mozjpeg you probably want to re-encode with cjpeg rather than jpegtran. > W

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-24 Thread Josh Aas
On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:05:19 AM UTC-5, j...@cloudflare.com wrote: > I selected 10,000 random JPEGs that we were caching for customers and ran > them through mozjpeg 2.0 via jpegtran. Some interesting facts: With mozjpeg you probably want to re-encode with cjpeg rather than jpegtran. We add

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-24 Thread Josh Aas
> Are there any plans to integrate into other tools, specifically imagemagick? > > Or would you leave that up to others? For now we're going to stay focused on improving compression in mozjpeg's library. I think a larger improved toolchain for optimizing JPEGs would be great, but it's probably

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-24 Thread Josh Aas
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:15:13 PM UTC-5, perez@gmail.com wrote: > #1 Would it be possible to have the same algorithm that is applied to webP to > be applied to JPEG? I'm not sure. WebP was created much later than JPEGs, so I'd think/hope they're already using some equivalent to trellis q

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-21 Thread Bryan Stillwell
One option that I haven't seen compared is the combination of JPEG w/ packJPG (http://packjpg.encode.ru/?page_id=17). packJPG can further compress JPEG images another 20%+ and still reproduce the original bit-for-bit. More details on how this is done can be found here: http://mattmahoney.net/d

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-21 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 19/07/2014 22:40, Ralph Giles wrote: > Probably not for Firefox OS, if you mean mozjpeg. Not necessarily > because it uses hardware, but because mozjpeg is about spending more cpu > power to compress images. It's more something you'd use server-side or > in creating apps. The phone uses libjpeg-

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-19 Thread Ralph Giles
On 2014-07-19 1:14 PM, Caspy7 wrote: > Would this code be a candidate for use in Firefox OS or does most of that > happen in the hardware? Probably not for Firefox OS, if you mean mozjpeg. Not necessarily because it uses hardware, but because mozjpeg is about spending more cpu power to compress

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-19 Thread Caspy7
Would this code be a candidate for use in Firefox OS or does most of that happen in the hardware? ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-18 Thread jgc
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:34:35 PM UTC+1, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image > Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances > JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". Josh, I work for CloudFlare on many things

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-16 Thread renesd
Cool =Re decoding. I'm replying to this note: "1. We're fans of libjpeg-turbo - it powers JPEG decoding in Firefox because its focus is on being fast, and that isn't going to change any time soon. The mozjpeg project focuses solely on encoding, and we trade some CPU cycles for smaller fi

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Masatoshi Kimura
On 7/15/14 12:38 PM, stonecyp...@gmail.com wrote: > Similarly there's a reason that people are still hacking video into > JPEGs and using animated GIFs. People are using animated GIFs, but animated GIFs people are using may not be animated GIFs [1]. (2014/07/16 5:43), Chris Peterson wrote: > Do C

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Chris Peterson
On 7/15/14 12:38 PM, stonecyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 7:34:35 AM UTC-7, Josh Aas wrote: This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0"

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread perez . m . marc
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:34:35 AM UTC-4, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image > Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances > JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". #1 Would it be possible to have the same al

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread john
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 7:34:35 AM UTC-7, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image > Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances > JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". Would be nice if you guys just implemented J

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread stonecypher
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 7:34:35 AM UTC-7, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image > Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances > JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". Would be nice if you guys just implemented J

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread lange . fabian
Hello Josh, thank you and all involved for your efforts to make the web faster. Are there any plans to integrate into other tools, specifically imagemagick? Or would you leave that up to others? With all the options available for image processing one can end up with building quite a complex chai

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Josh Aas
Study is here: http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study_july_2014/ Blog post is here: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/07/15/mozilla-advances-jpeg-encoding-with-mozjpeg-2-0/ ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.moz

Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency, July 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Josh Aas
This is the discussion thread for Mozilla's July 2014 Lossy Compressed Image Formats Study and the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0". ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https:

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2014-05-09 Thread e . blackbrook
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:14:40 PM UTC-4, stephan...@gmail.com wrote: > Of course, you can throw a bunch of images to some naive observers with a > nice web interface, but what about their screens differences? what about > their light conditions differences? how do you validate people for

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2014-03-07 Thread Jeff Muizelaar
On Feb 23, 2014, at 5:17 PM, evacc...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, October 21, 2013 8:54:24 AM UTC-6, tric...@accusoft.com wrote: >>> - I suppose that the final lossless step used for JPEGs was the usual >>> Huffman encoding and not arithmetic coding, have you considered testing the >>> later

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2014-03-07 Thread jbhollen
Why did you choose jpeg quality as your independent variable? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the similarity value? When trying to match other formats to the jpeg's value, you can get close but can't exactly match it. This creates an inherent bias. So for one thing, the data should have incl

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2014-02-23 Thread evaccaro
On Monday, October 21, 2013 8:54:24 AM UTC-6, tric...@accusoft.com wrote: > > - I suppose that the final lossless step used for JPEGs was the usual > > Huffman encoding and not arithmetic coding, have you considered testing the > > later one independently? > > > > Uninteresting since nobody us

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-27 Thread palsto1aa
About the methodology of using identical colorspace conversion for all formats, the study asserts > and manual visual spot checking did not suggest the conversion > had a large effect on perceptual quality I think this claim should be examined more carefully. Take this image, for example: https:

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-25 Thread geeta . b . arora
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 7:48:16 AM UTC-7, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for the Mozilla Research blog post entitled > "Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency", and the related study. Few queries regarding the study's methodology: 1.) The com

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-25 Thread newstop
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:12:08 AM UTC+4, Yoav Weiss wrote: > > Last time I checked, about 60% of all PNG image traffic (so about ~9% of all > Web traffic, according to HTTPArchive.org) is PNGs of color type 6, so 24 bit > lossless images with an alpha channel. A large part of these PNGs a

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-22 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 10:15 AM, pornel...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 October 2013 08:12:08 UTC+1, Yoav Weiss wrote: > > > This is a part of Web traffic that would make enormous gains from an > > alpha-channel capable format, such as WebP or JPEG-XR (Don't know if > > HEVC-MS

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-22 Thread pornelski
On Tuesday, 22 October 2013 08:12:08 UTC+1, Yoav Weiss wrote: > This is a part of Web traffic that would make enormous gains from an > alpha-channel capable format, such as WebP or JPEG-XR (Don't know if HEVC-MSP > has an alpha channel ATM), yet this is completely left out of the research. I

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-22 Thread Yoav Weiss
I have a couple of points which IMO are missing from the discussion. # JPEG's missing features & alpha channel capabilities in particular Arguably, one of the biggest gains from WebP/JPEG-XR support is the ability to send real life photos with an alpha channel. Last time I checked, about 60% of

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread battlebottle8
On Monday, October 21, 2013 4:05:36 PM UTC+1, tric...@accusoft.com wrote: > There is probably a good study by the EPFL from, IIRC, 2011, published at the > SPIE, Applications of Digital Image Processing, and many many others. > > Outcome is more or less that JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR are on par for a

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread trichter
> I think it would be worthwhile to do two experiments with real people > > evaluating the images: > > 1) For a given file size with artifacts visible, which format > > produces the least terrible artifacts? > > 2) Which format gives the smallest file size with a level of > > artifacts that

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread trichter
> Are there now JPEG 2000 encoders that make images such that if you > > want to decode an image in quarter of the full-size in terms of number > > of pixels (both dimensions halved), it is sufficient to use the first > > quarter of the file length? Yes, certainly. Just a matter of the progres

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread trichter
There are probably a couple of issues here: > - Why didn't you include JPEG 2000? This is the first one. However, I would also include various settings of the codecs involved. There is quite a bit one can do. For example, the overlap settings for XR or visual weighting for JPEG 2000, or subsamp

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Adams
It's not as simple as reading n% of the bit-stream – the image needs to be encoded using tiles so a tile-aware decoder can simply read only the necessary levels. This is very popular in the library community because it allows a site like e.g. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ to serve tiles for a

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:16 PM, wrote: > I think JP2 support could potentially be very interesting because it would > make responsive images almost trivial without requiring separate files (i.e. > srcset could simply specify a byte-range for each size image) but the > toolchain support needs

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:08 AM, wrote: > Which leads to think that doing some blinded experiment (real people > evaluating the images) to compare compressed images has still some value. I think it would be worthwhile to do two experiments with real people evaluating the images: 1) For a given

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-21 Thread stephanepechard
> I have a couple of fundamental issues with how you're calculating 3 of the 4 > metrics (all but RGB-SSIM, which I didn't think too much about) You are right about it, methodology is not clear on this point. > First, am I correct in my reading of your methodology that for all metrics, > you en

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-20 Thread danbrigade
I have a couple of fundamental issues with how you're calculating 3 of the 4 metrics (all but RGB-SSIM, which I didn't think too much about) First, am I correct in my reading of your methodology that for all metrics, you encode a color image (4:2:0) and use that encoded filesize? If so, then all

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-20 Thread Yoav Weiss
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 1:12:14 AM UTC+2, Ralph Giles wrote: > On 2013-10-18 1:57 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: > > > > > Would you consider a large sample of lossless Web images (real-life images > > served as PNG24, even though it'd be wiser to serve them as JPEGs) to be > > unbiased enough to

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-19 Thread stephanepechard
I'll just talk about the quality evaluation aspects of this study, as it is a field I know quite well (PhD on the topic, even if in video specifically). > I think the most important kind of comparison to do is a subjective blind > test with real people. This is of course produces less accurate

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-19 Thread battlebottle8
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:30:15 PM UTC+1, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: > - Original Message - > > > On Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:12:14 AM UTC+1, Ralph Giles wrote: > > > > On 2013-10-18 1:57 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: > > > > Do you have such a sample? > > > > > > For what it's worth h

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-19 Thread Jeff Muizelaar
- Original Message - > On Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:12:14 AM UTC+1, Ralph Giles wrote: > > On 2013-10-18 1:57 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: > > Do you have such a sample? > > For what it's worth here's an image I made quite awhile ago showing the > results of my own blind subjective comparis

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-19 Thread battlebottle8
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 12:12:14 AM UTC+1, Ralph Giles wrote: > On 2013-10-18 1:57 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: > Do you have such a sample? For what it's worth here's an image I made quite awhile ago showing the results of my own blind subjective comparison between codecs: http://www.filedropper

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-18 Thread Ralph Giles
On 2013-10-18 1:57 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote: > Would you consider a large sample of lossless Web images (real-life images > served as PNG24, even though it'd be wiser to serve them as JPEGs) to be > unbiased enough to run this research against? I believe such a sample would > better represent Web i

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-18 Thread leptienm
I think you are attacking from the wrong angle. Being responsible in an Enterprise for quite a few sites, most issues I have are, where all current formats fail miserably. To make the point, see the two following Images, were I have to live with PNG-24 huge sized files, due to a) alpha-transpara

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-18 Thread chris
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 1:50:12 PM UTC-4, cry...@free.fr wrote: > Thank you for publishing this study, here are my first questions: > > - Why didn't you include JPEG 2000? You might find https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36351#c120 interesting: it discusses what it would take to

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-18 Thread battlebottle8
Very interesting study. I’m shocked to see WebP and JPEG-XR perform so poorly on so many of the tests. Do they really perform *that* much *worse* than JPEG? It seems hard to imagine. I've done my own tests on jpeg, web-p and jpeg-xr by blindly comparing files of the same size and deciding subjec

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-18 Thread Yoav Weiss
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:48:16 PM UTC+2, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for the Mozilla Research blog post entitled > "Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency", and the related study. Thank you for publishing this research! While I like the methodolo

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread cryopng
HDR-VDP-2 is relatively recent metric that produces predictions for difference visibility and quality degradation. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/hdrvdp/index.php?title=Main_Page It could been interesting to add this metric in future studies. Rafał Mantiuk (the guy behind HDR-VDP-2) also w

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread Josh Aas
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:50:12 PM UTC-5, cry...@free.fr wrote: > Thank you for publishing this study, here are my first questions: > > - Why didn't you include JPEG 2000? We couldn't test everything, we picked a small set of the formats that we hear the most about and that seem interesti

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread Leman Bennett (Omega X)
On 10/17/2013 9:48 AM, Josh Aas wrote: This is the discussion thread for the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency", and the related study. HEVC-MSP did really well. Its unfortunate that Mozilla could not use it in any capacity since i

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread cryopng
Thank you for publishing this study, here are my first questions: - Why didn't you include JPEG 2000? - Correct me if I'm wrong but JPEG-XR native color space is not Y'CbCr this means that this format had to perform an extra (possibly lossy) color space conversion. - I suppose that the final lo

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread pgasston
On Thursday, 17 October 2013 10:48:16 UTC-4, Josh Aas wrote: > This is the discussion thread for the Mozilla Research blog post entitled > "Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency", and the related study. Would be interesting if you could post your conclusions

Re: Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread Josh Aas
Blog post is here: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image-compression-efficiency/ Study is here: http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study_october_2013/ ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency

2013-10-17 Thread Josh Aas
This is the discussion thread for the Mozilla Research blog post entitled "Studying Lossy Image Compression Efficiency", and the related study. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform