Silly Image Compression Idea
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Silly Image Compression Idea
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#2Congrats on reinventing the autoencoder!
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#3the smallest compressor is just the (differentiable) classier itself. The compressed image is just the output class, and the de-compressor generates a random image then back propagates the class error until it gets an image that has the right class. Maybe you toss in a random seed in the format, so the compressor can spend some more time to guarantee the de-compressor will complete in a reasonable amount of time.
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#4Compression with no plan in sight for decompression... at least it's billed as "silly" first and foremost.
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#5This reminded me of a weird idea that I had several years ago (which is kind of opposite of this):
What if there was a format that doesn't encode pixels but generates a "description" of the images using AI, of simple shapes to higher-level objects, and saves that in its own format, with a "decoder" that takes this input description format and constructs an image similar to the original, at least to some extent.
Of course this would have many drawbacks like encoding micro details and expressions of people, but still, I'd love to see how far the idea can go.
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#6This reminded me of a weird idea that I had several years ago (which is kind of opposite of this): What if there was a format that doesn't encode pixels but generates a "description" of the images using AI, of simple shapes to higher-level objects, and saves that in its own format, with a "decoder" that takes this input description format and constructs an image similar to the original, at least to some extent. Of co…
Not entirely unlike fractal compression[1]. Was a lot of hype around it way back, but clearly it didn't quite pan out.
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#7Compression with no plan in sight for decompression... at least it's billed as "silly" first and foremost.
I've seen worse; someone presented code for decompression of a fictional data format with no plan in sight for compression.
When I asked how the compression part would be implemented, the author called me stupid for asking this question and told me the project was inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
Re: Silly Image Compression Idea
#8This reminded me of a weird idea that I had several years ago (which is kind of opposite of this): What if there was a format that doesn't encode pixels but generates a "description" of the images using AI, of simple shapes to higher-level objects, and saves that in its own format, with a "decoder" that takes this input description format and constructs an image similar to the original, at least to some extent. Of co…
that's like heraldry, rebuilding an image from a precise/regimented verbal description
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#9Compression with no plan in sight for decompression... at least it's billed as "silly" first and foremost.
I've seen worse; someone presented code for decompression of a fictional data format with no plan in sight for compression. When I asked how the compression part would be implemented, the author called me stupid for asking this question and told me the project was inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
That is simply amazing, thanks for sharing :)
Re: Silly Image Compression Idea
#10This reminded me of a weird idea that I had several years ago (which is kind of opposite of this): What if there was a format that doesn't encode pixels but generates a "description" of the images using AI, of simple shapes to higher-level objects, and saves that in its own format, with a "decoder" that takes this input description format and constructs an image similar to the original, at least to some extent. Of co…
sounds like vector graphics?