How many "better JPEGs" have been created now, without significantly displacing JPEG's market share?
BPG Image format
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Re: BPG Image format
#32I appreciate the historical tradition of using the photo of beautiful young Lena Söderberg as a test image, but it's time to move on. It's fun for us hetero males, but like it or not, this sends a message to young women that they aren't welcome in this field. I wish Fabrice Bellard would have left them out of the demo set. Having said that, all those demo photos do look good. I was wondering how we were going to see…
What about introducing a new male equivalent image of Lena instead? This approach would at least balance things out while maintaining an image that has become a standard to compare things to for a long time. If I were someone working on image compression techniques I would probably have seen many many algorithms and their output using that image so when I see a new algorithm and a new Lena, I might look at the result…
Re: BPG Image format
#33His accomplishments are impressive: QEMU, FFMPEG, TCC, JSLinux, the list goes on
Re: BPG Image format
#34Pronounced 'bee-peg'?
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#35Re: BPG Image format
#36I notice the container has no ICC profile support. Trivial do add as an extension tag, but should definitely be in the first spec IMO. And if I read this correctly, extension tags are hardcoded as numbers, rather than using a tag name. I don't think that's a good idea.
Well you can think of it as a tag name limited to 4 ascii characters if you like.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong.
extension_tag ue7(32)
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'extension_tag' is the extension tag. The following values are defined:
1: EXIF data.
PS. I think I understand now. It's just meant as a shortcut. Not sure why this is done when EXIF fits just as well.Re: BPG Image format
#37Don't we already have WebP?
Re: BPG Image format
#38I appreciate the historical tradition of using the photo of beautiful young Lena Söderberg as a test image, but it's time to move on. It's fun for us hetero males, but like it or not, this sends a message to young women that they aren't welcome in this field. I wish Fabrice Bellard would have left them out of the demo set. Having said that, all those demo photos do look good. I was wondering how we were going to see…
No matter how you feel about the image itself, though, there is value in continuing to use it... people are familiar with it, to the point of it becoming almost cliché. This takes the focus off of the image and subject and puts it squarely on the image algorithm.
Re: BPG Image format
#39I appreciate the historical tradition of using the photo of beautiful young Lena Söderberg as a test image, but it's time to move on. It's fun for us hetero males, but like it or not, this sends a message to young women that they aren't welcome in this field. I wish Fabrice Bellard would have left them out of the demo set. Having said that, all those demo photos do look good. I was wondering how we were going to see…
People are too sensitive. I'm a hetero male, and I don't find the image 'fun' at all... it's just an image. It doesn't send a message to anyone. If anything, I don't really care for it for image algorithm tests because the palette is fairly flat. No matter how you feel about the image itself, though, there is value in continuing to use it... people are familiar with it, to the point of it becoming almost cliché. This…
That's the exact privilege you get to enjoy as a hetero male. You get to ignore things like this when your female colleagues (if you're lucky enough to work with any) have to look at the image and be reminded that many people continue to view them as objects.
Re: BPG Image format
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it's slower and takes more RAM than JPG. I can see a delay of about a second in my browser. (Edit: I assume my browser is caching the data, but if not, some of that time could be re-downloading the data.)
[Edit] I had misunderstood the quoted Mozilla performance claims[0] to be related to processing speed, whereas they refer to performance being a measurement of quality. Thanks sp332 for the correction. [0] http://people.mozilla.org/~josh/lossy_compressed_image_study...