similar to: NHW Project - high compression - aliasing

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, 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, The -l8 "very high compression" setting I posted was not really good.Now I have corrected and improved it, and now the -l8 quality setting is really better, more precision and more neatness. I think now it is a good setting, and I have started to compare it with x265 and it can be now competitive. More at: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ Do not hesitate to test it and give me

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

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

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, I think I have nearly validated the -l8 "very high compression" setting, I have started to work on -l9 setting, and I have just tested these ones against x265 (HEVC), and on rather good quality images, they are very competitive, that's not a joke!!! I have tested -l8 quality setting on 30 rather good quality images against x265, and on 20-22 images I prefer the results of the

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];

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 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, 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 -

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

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, 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

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

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

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, 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

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, 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