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 ...

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Having concluded in a previous piece that compression was a disaster, it's somewhat comforting to realise that an increasing number of cameras now allow us to record pictures which are uncompressed, ...

While HPC and cloud computing users may initially be nervous about using lossy compression, they should also remember the compelling benefit of lossy compression: a controllable way to reduce ...