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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

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 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

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, 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

Hello, Just a quick message to let you know that I have really improved very high compression of the NHW Project from -l8 to -l13 quality settings, and we can still save 2.5KB per .nhw compressed file. Actually I am new to very high compression, it is just 3 months that I am working on it (I put on pause the NHW Project from August 2013 to February 2018 )... And I realize that very high

Hello, In my last post, I seemed to say that there were no directional wavelet transforms that would give improvement to the NHW codec, but are directional wavelets an active research field today? I have also seen some recent patents on advanced and improved SPIHT, and I am a little surprised that there is no "up-to-date" state-of-the-art wavelet codec.Rududu in April 2008 was the last

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 -

Hi Raphael, On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Well, if you want to pursue a collaborative project, you need to attract others to work on it. Perhaps 'demo'

Hello, I would like to thank very much the Theora channel community for their support and help!!! And even recently a Theora channel member proposed me to freely host on his server the NHW Project website, to present the codec on the embedded processors, MCU forums that he knows well, another member forked my GitHub repository!!! Really thank you very much!!! It makes me think that maybe the NHW

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

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

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];

Hello Ken, Many thanks for your reply! Yes, I very need to adapt the NHW codec to any image size.But actually it is the least interesting part, I don't think that it is that difficult (compared to creating high compression settings) but it is very boring, annoying... Really not the part that I prefer... For now, as I am jobless, my aim is to have "pleasure" with the NHW Project and

Hello Spork, > If you want though, when I find some time, I can work on supporting a better command line parsing. Yes that would be great as my command line parsing is not good at all. > Does your codec compile under Linux? If not, that's something I can try to work on as well. I never tested my codec under Linux )-:, and so it would be also great to compile it under Linux.I think

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

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

Hello, Could some of you take a look at the image comparison between the NHW Project and x265 (HEVC) at high compression, available here: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ . I would be very very interested in your opinion, and it would help me to perfect the NHW Project.For me the NHW Project has more neatness, and x265 has more precision. Else, I was a little lazy these past months, as I

Hello, If it could be of interest, here are new speed measurement for -l13 very high compression setting. For x265 (HEVC), I use BPG codec, and this time I use -m 0 setting which uses the fastest encoding setting of x265.I run the .exe 10x times and I pick the best scores. So here are the timings at -l13 very high compression: Encode time: x265 (BPG -m 0): 80ms NHW: 20ms Decode time: x265

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-30 14:22 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: [theora] NHW Project - speed comparison with x265 To: fboehm <fboehm at aon.at> Hi Franz, Many thanks for your answer!!! > I appreciate your enthusiastic work on such a complex project like writing a video codec Yes, for now the NHW codec is more an