Abstract: JPEG is daily used for compressing natural images, while the compressed images often contain visually annoying artifacts especially at low rates. To reduce the compression artifacts, it has ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to ...

Abstract: Starting with the JPEG standard in the early 90s, in order to use storage space or transmission media more efficiently, various image and video compression methods have emerged. Within the ...