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 ...

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 ...

In the past decade, the field of image processing (the processing of video and/or graphic images) and more specifically integrated circuits (ICs) for image processing, have changed dramatically. The ...

After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed ...

Black Forest Labs Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models optimized for image generation tasks, has ...