Fractal image compression techniques exploit the inherent self-similarity found in images by utilising iterated function systems (IFS) and affine transformations to represent images in a compressed ...

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...

Google walks back its JPEG XL decision, months after rivals and standards groups moved ahead ...

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with ...

Most applications need to compress the photos you upload, because better cameras also mean bigger image files. The larger the file is, the more data you use and the longer the upload takes. Facebook ...

Along with the rise of the modern World Wide Web came the introduction of the JPEG image compression standard in 1992, allowing for high-quality images to be shared ...

We’ve been able to use Google Messages to send images via RCS without recompression. The latest Messages betas have been removing the Send photos faster toggle. It’s still too early to say if this ...

Bandwidth has a knack for being late to the party. Back when the internet was still a research project at the Department of Defense, we needed floppy disks to make file sharing a reality between ...

If you find that your images are unclear or have lost clarity, you can unblur and restore their quality using AI tools on a ...