Everyone is obsessed with text-to-image artificial intelligence now, those seemingly magical prompts that turn your thoughts into images with one sentence and a mouse click. Surprisingly, however, you ...

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with ...

Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back Google has added support for the ...

As the application of machine vision grows for inspecting electronic products during manufacturing, demand increases for better ways to archive and transmit the resulting images more efficiently.

Hyperspectral image compression techniques have become increasingly critical in modern remote sensing, where sensors collect vast spectral cubes composed of hundreds of contiguous bands. These ...

In a nutshell: Stable Diffusion is a phenomenal example of how much a picture is worth more than a thousand words. In fact, by cutting the image-generation text prompt altogether, the visual AI could ...

We’ve been able to use Google Messages to send images via RCS without recompression. The latest Messages betas have been removing the Send photos faster toggle. It’s still too early to say if this ...

In the flurry of blog posts that represented my late-May Windows Hardware Engineering Conference coverage, one tidbit that I didn't mention was that Microsoft is now advocating a new image format ...

For over 30 years, JPG has been the image format we all know and use. It has characterized the beginnings of the internet as well as digital photography. However, technology has overtaken the ...