Displaying 20 results from an estimated 2000 matches similar to: "NHW Project and wavelet codecs"
2018 May 28
0
NHW Project - high compression & community
Hello,
I've found some time to get back to the NHW Project.In fact a Xiph forum
member told me that even if I will start a new job, he hopes that I will
still continue to develop a little the NHW Project, on my spare time.I told
him that I would furthermore spend my spare time on the NHW Project if a
community around the project could emerge... and he told me that certainly
the best way for
2016 Oct 01
0
NHW codec
Hello,
I would like to discuss a little about the NHW codec and its state after
nearly 5 years on the Xiph forums.
I also know that if I would like to discuss I'd better go to the great
Doom9 and Encode.ru forums but for now I find that my codec is too
experimental for these professional forums:
- the codec is only for fixed 512x512 size, just a test tool.
- there is only mid compression
-
2018 Mar 10
0
NHW Project - lower quality settings
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
2017 May 27
0
NHW Codec - aliasing
Hello,
I have just tested new next lower quality settings (-l3 and -l4), I can
diminish residual coding but if I increase wavelet coeffs threshold there
is more aliasing.And even in the current mid quality settings there is some
aliasing, this is the big drawback of the NHW codec.
SPIHT algorithm is good for that as for example Rududu codec doesn't have
aliasing at all at mid compression and
2017 Dec 01
0
NHW Project - website, demo pages, algorithms dev,...
Hello,
So thanks to helpful forum feedbacks, I know now that I have to create a
website for the NHW Project, make demo pages of the technology, and all
that with good visual design.It won't be such easy for me... For example, I
can easily supply a description, explanation of the different steps of the
algorithm, I can supply images encoded at mid-compression with NHW, x265,
WebP, JPEG,...
2018 Mar 09
0
NHW Project - lower quality settings
Hello,
I have re-tested -l4 high compression setting and it's clear that it lacks
of precision on degraded, rather blurred images. So I don't know if it is a
good idea to base the other lower quality settings (-l5,-l6,...) on -l4
setting.I have tested the NHW codec against x265, x264, Daala, WebP,
Rududu, DLI and it's clear that at high compression these very good codecs
have more
2018 Mar 10
2
NHW Project - lower quality settings
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
2017 Mar 07
0
NHW Codec - some progress
Hello,
I have some progress for the NHW codec.
I recently talked with a researcher that has some interest in the NHW
codec.He has studied several directional wavelet transforms (notably HWD
directional transform), and he came to the conclusion that directional
transforms will bring marginal improvement, not significant in the case of
my compression codec.This also confirms what I have read from
2016 Mar 24
1
NHW codec - progress 2
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
2013 Jun 19
0
NHW Image codec - lower quality settings
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
2013 Aug 28
0
NHW Image codec - Compression Performance
Hello,
Definitely not any (constructive) comments on the NHW Image codec?
According to my tests, it can compare good with reference codecs like
x264 intra and WebP.
Yes, the codec is still experimental and is optimized for visual
(subjective) evaluation, not PSNR.Its main feature is again that it would
have a little more neatness/sharpness and a little less precision (residual
coding is applied
2018 Dec 03
0
NHW Project - How to find a sponsor?
Hello,
I am still working on very high compression for the NHW Project, but I find
the current version good, it has a good neatness of image, which I find
visually more pleasant than other codecs that are optimizing for PSNR,
SSIM,... Furthermore the NHW Project is still very fast and royalty-free.
I dedicated this past year to the NHW Project and I could make very good
improvements (like
2015 Jan 23
0
NHW Image codec
Hello,
So here is the compression scheme that I don't know if is covered by patent.
I use it on the wavelet DC parts.It outputs 1 byte (8 bits) words.There is
5 modes:
- 1(MSB) | 7 bits to store value (0->127 range)
- 01 | 6 bits to store val[n+1]-val[n] | val[n]-val[n-1] if each in the
range [-4,4]
- 001 | 5 bits to store val[n+2]-val[n+1] | val[n+1]-val[n] |
val[n]-val[n-1] if each in
2017 Sep 04
0
NHW Project - fast discrete wavelet transform
Hello,
I forgot in my last reply that my DWT implementation can be speed up, for
example I'm doing for now:
for (;_X1<_E_;_X1++,_RES+=2) //dilatation
{
_RES[0]=_X1[0]<<3;
_RES[1]=(_X1[1]+_X1[0])<<2;
}
then
for (;_X2<_E_;_X2++,_RES+=2) //details
{
_RES[0]-=(_X2[1]+_X2[0])<<1;
_RES[1]+=6*_X2[1]-_X2[2]-_X2[0];
2017 Feb 16
0
NHW Project - 2017 timetable
Hello all,
Just a quick message for those interested in the NHW Project.I realize that
I have too little time to spend on the project currently and I feel that
this year will be very important after 6-7 years for its success or not.I
already had some few replies from some companies (and a major one), and
they can not spend some time, spend some engineers on my work because there
is no
2015 Jan 18
2
NHW Image codec
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
2017 Nov 17
0
NHW Project - blurred edges
Hello,
I am progressively getting back to the NHW Project development (but it is
not that easy, I am a little depressed currently...).
I realize what is needed for the NHW codec is more HF energy preservation,
but as all the HF energy seems to require lot of bits, I wanted to select
specifically the HF energy around blurred edges, in order not to have edges
with aliasing.Is it possible to
2013 May 29
1
NHW Image codec - 2 lower quality settings
Hello,
I have finally added 2 lower quality settings for the NHW codec: -l1 (-5Ko)
and -l2 (-10Ko).I use a quantization of 0.935 and 0.88 (kind of
quantization), and I decrease residual coding on the first order wavelet
image.
I have updated the demo page: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ .
These 2 lower quality settings are still experimental.If you could find
time, would be interested in any
2017 Oct 23
0
NHW Project - neatness metrics
Hello all,
Finally find some time to get back to the NHW Project.I was thinking about
making a technology demo, and I wanted to highlight the uniqueness of the
NHW codec that is neatness/sharpness preserving or enhancement.With my
eyes, I can see that the NHW codec has more neatness/sharpness than the
other codecs (x265, x264, WebP, Rududu, JPEG,...), but for a demo there
must be objective
2018 Dec 12
0
NHW Project - good quality improvement & new -l14 very high compression quality setting
Hello,
I am still progressing with very high compression and I have corrected a
processing, so now very high compression (-l10 to -l13 quality settings)
has really better precision and so better quality.
I have also released a first draft of a new -l14 very high compression
quality setting.
More at: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/
Just a remark, the entropy coding schemes start to be less