similar to: NHW Image codec - 2 lower quality settings

Hello, Just a very quick message to let you know that I have added a higher quality setting (-h2, +10Ko) and I have added now residual coding on the 512x256 wavelet image for the higher settings.Precision is a little better.-I also still apply the post-processing function on the 512x256 wavelet image for now.- Here is the link for the binaries (as I can not link them in my blog for now):

Hi again, I have improved precision of my codec (on the encoder and decoder).I have also improved the -h1 quality setting.-Source code and binaries at http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/-. I am still trying to improve precision of my codec, with keeping my low-complexity (fast) approach. I do not totally use the reference (and impressive) block prediction with different modes + residual coding scheme,

Hello, I have improved a little the NHW codec.I have improved the dequantization in the wavelet HH band, and little improved the -l2 (and lower) quality setting.I have also added a -l3 lower quality setting (-15Ko, exp), I have increased the quantization for this other setting, and I start to remove higher wavelet coefficients, but this is not optimal... The artifacts start to be noticeable for

Hello, Just a quick message to correct what I have said in my previous post.It finally seems not that easy to code small wavelet coefficients to have a good precision, and SPIHT is certainly a very good algorithm for that, -and I know there are SPIHT experts that can make very good SPIHT-based codecs-.I have chosen a new and different approach, the multistage residual coding, so I will try to

Hi David! Many thanks for your very encouraging and kind feedback!!! (Hope you don't mind that I made your post public on the Theora channel). I try to be the more sincere as I can in my posts.Some people suggested me to make demo pages to explain how the codec works step by step, and I realize that it would be good, because certainly it will show that the NHW codec is not that complex and

Hello, For those interested, I have added a -l8 "very high compression" setting to the NHW Project. I have added an experimental processing to remove details and preserve neatness.I have also now a fast estimation of entropy of wavelet coefficients and I use it accordingly to the image complexity but it is a very first version... With these new processings, the entropy coding schemes

Hello, For those interested, I have added a -l4 high compression setting to the NHW codec ( http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ ).This setting is very experimental, I have boosted the sharpness for this one, but it can lack of precision on low contrast areas. This setting still maintains a good neatness and when it will be validated, I will then make a new 0.1.4 version for the NHW Project. High

Raphael, Some 15 years ago I implemented limited functionality Theora in our cameras FPGA (it took me 6 month of hard labor), and then gave up - it is a very crowded space and it is difficult to compete with more advanced codecs. And for our other work we anyway need almost raw image data, so we are using JPEG-based JP4 format (https://community.elphel.com/jp4) that we originally developed for

Hello, Ok, and that's too many work to review a source code.In my codec, I have 3 compression schemes, I think 2 are not patented, but the third... I don't know.For the rest, I think my codec is patent-free (I don't use SPIHT,EZW,zerotree methods), even the wavelet transform is new and don't use the lifting scheme nor the convolution product. Else, if you found time to review the

Hello, I was testing quickly some other lower quality settings -l3, -l4 because high compression is what really lacks to the NHW codec. In fact I can remove -5Ko of residual coding on Y,U,V comps for -l3 and I can remove -10Ko always of residual coding for -l4, and -l3, -l4 settings will be really better than the current ones implemented. I can also increase the wavelet coefficients threshold

Hello, These last 2 months, I have talked again with Monty Montgomery about the NHW Project and he told me that Xiph.org would like to encourage the NHW Project development.That's just great! I'll see what Monty will do on his side (and when he has time), but he also told me that the NHW codec has merits but there must be an effort to demonstrate them. The advantages, merits of the NHW

Raphael, I do not believe it is possible to build a viable community around most hardware projects except super-universal based on very cheap/high-volume products like Pi or Arduino. We see the commercial benefits of Free Software/Open Hardware as it adds value to the hardware as users are ready to pay extra for the Freedom. Andrey ---- On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:59:34 -0700 Raphael Canut

Hi Andrey, Thank you for your answer.Actually, NHW is very low-power so I think it could be geared toward any hardware.But actually I don't have hardware skills, so NHW is not a real hardware project for now maybe? I agree with you that it is extremely difficult (for me) to build a community around NHW, I'm certainly very bad/underskilled at it.Any help is welcome! Cheers, Raphael Le

Hello, I know there is no community around NHW, but I would have liked to know what you would like to see improved in the NHW codec.I know its results are not perfect for now compared to high-end AV1/VVC codecs for example, but could be ok giving its extremely fast speed.-However on high quality images, I notably like its good results because of its neatness.- Regarding things to improve, there

Hello, With -l5 quality setting, I have learned that I can increase wavelet coeff threshold to 12 in the HH band without noticeable difference in the reconstructed images.With this processing, I win in average 1Ko in the compressed .nhw files, and so I can raise the quantization for -l1->-l4 settings (0.935->0.955,0.88->0.9,0.87->0.89) and so these settings are now better, there is a

Hello, Just a quick message to let you know that I get back to NHW Project currently. I downloaded 20 images from the Internet with rather good quality (mainly faces), I compressed them at high compression -l7 setting with the NHW Project, and on 19 images out of 20, I visually prefer the results of NHW compared to x265 (HEVC)!!! -I can make available these 20x3=60 512x512 24bit bitmap images

Hello, I am very slowly working on the NHW Project.I recently made a speed comparison with x265 and wanted to share it with you. On my processor Intel Core i5-6400, in average the NHW encoder (totally unoptimized) is x10 times faster to encode than x265 (png decoding time removed), in average 30ms vs 300ms for a 512x512 24bit color image, and in average the NHW decoder (totally unoptimized) is

Hello, I have improved quality for -l4 and -l5 high compression settings.These settings are now really better and very competitive, I now prefer them compared to x265 (HEVC). Update at: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ I am also working on -l6 quality setting, I can simply increase quantization for it but I am not totally satisfied with this solution for now... Looking for more advanced processing

I don't mind at all. I imagine there are more people like me out there who have been following your work, but haven't said anything. I agree that a series of pages explaining how things work may lead to more contributions. At the very least it would lead to more people being better educated on how wavelets work in image compression. But, this is your project, if you don't have the

Hello, Ok, I will post them in a folder on Google Drive and will give the link on my blog page, -because among other things, on my blog page, I can not display 2 bitmap 512x512 images side by side-... Hope it is ok! Cheers, Raphael 2018-07-15 1:41 GMT+02:00 J.B. Nicholson <jbn at forestfield.org>: > Raphael Canut wrote: > >> I downloaded 20 images from the Internet with