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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 Dave, Thank you very much for your help! Cheers, Raphael 2018-07-10 9:39 GMT+02:00 Dave Johnson Games <davefilms.us at gmail.com>: > Let me do some looking. > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 4:55 PM Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Dave! >> >> Thank you very much for your answer! >> >> You're right.I have thought

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

You're welcome! On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 4:50 AM Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Dave, > > Thank you very much for your help! > > Cheers, > Raphael > > 2018-07-10 9:39 GMT+02:00 Dave Johnson Games <davefilms.us at gmail.com>: > >> Let me do some looking. >> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 4:55 PM Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at

Hello, I don't have advanced on the NHW codec, but now, as a lot of people, I am following the AOMedia AV1 codec.Just a (late) update of my previous post, there won't be problem in AOM AV1 with the CABAC scheme, as the codec will use Daala's multi-symbol entropy coder and/or ANS.That's great! I have even read on the wiki page, that AV1 will use Daala's PVQ as quantization

Hello, For those interested, I have added a new -l19 "extreme" compression quality setting to the NHW Project.This -l19 quality setting is really competitive with x265 (HEVC) on rather good quality images. An important remark: we can really save 2.5KB in average per .nhw compressed file as the entropy coding schemes are not optimal, especially at extreme compression.I have the fast

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 have (slowly) worked these last couple weeks on the psychovisual model of NHW because some people reproach me that it washes details out... so I restored a little more details but this consumes some bits and actually it turned out that it also decreases neatness, and so when you compare at the same compression ratio, actually I find the current version visually better because it has a

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, I don't have advanced on the NHW Project this past month, but I have definitely validated its characteristics and this new version. The NHW Codec preserves or enhances image neatness and sharpness, which translates that on good quality images the NHW Codec is globally better than HEVC, and on degraded (with blur, artifacts) images it is worse than HEVC because it lacks of precision. I

Hello all, It's me again.Just a quick message to tell that I finally do not agree that HEVC (don't have tested AOM AV1 for now) is better than the NHW codec at mid compression. Last night, I dowloaded 30 images of Star Wars Rogue One on the web and I made another comparison with x265 (HEVC) for mid compression (-l2 to h2 settings for the NHW codec). Visually, I prefer the results of 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

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

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, 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 that's right HEVC and AOM AV1 are better than the NHW codec, even at mid compression.I only tested my codec with quite neat images, hence the good results, but on more blurred, more compressed images, HEVC and AOM AV1 are definitely better, they are also exceptionnal at high compression. So, yes that's right, the NHW codec has very little chance to penetrate the market, it is

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, These last 2 months I have been in contact with a very impressive and friendly engineer from Intel who has written an article on my codec and the 4-5 new codecs in general that competes with HEVC.He finally answered me that as Intel is a founding member of the Alliance for Open Media and chairs several MPEG WG around HEVC, they won't be able to put extra resources on the NHW Project.So

Hello, Nice to post here again! I wanted to give you a quick update of the NHW Project as I met great people on this forum. It is one year that I did not work on the NHW Project.I however made from time to time some visual comparison with other codecs on my spare time. Based on my visual comparison tests and subjective opinion, I can confirm that I still find the NHW Project visually more

Hello, For those interested, I have released the NHW v0.3.0-rc29 new version. I continue to fine-tune the nhw_kernel weights.This new version has then more precision and a better visual quality. I have made a "deeper" visual review at -q14 compression setting which is "high" compression, and I find now that at this setting NHW has a competitive precision with AVIF and VVC.If