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IMAGE COMPRESSION


This site part is about the near-lossless compression of images and movies (compression without visible loss of image quality). What I find even more interesting than the extreme reduction of file size, is the search for the essence of images. I guess you may split compression in two: the lossless search for repetitions, and the lossy search for things that are less important. A work in progress this is, so feel free to give whatever feedback.


INDEX



A one hour movie
A digital movie is a-lot-of-data. An example of a one hour Full HD movie.
Bits and Combinations
What a bit is, counting bits and the power of combining bits
Compression
The search for repetitions and less important details.
What a camera can capture
There's no such thing a lossless photo or movie (relative to reality)
and non-RAW cameras should be prohibited!
What the eye can sense
How many colors can your monitor show, and how many colors can your eyes distinguish?
Noise is no image
If noise isn't image, then when busy on image-compression; we should exlude noise!
Dither
The illusion of there being more tones, and the reduction of combinations.
Less Combinations
Eight bits have 256 combinations, but if you know that eight out of eight bits are zero, than there's just one combination possible: 00000000.
The Shortest Codes
If the goal is small files, then better use the shortest codes.
Camera Motions
A hand held motioncamera's digital images are all different, even when if the camera would be 100% without noise, because even the slightest change of camera position results in a different image on the image sensor.



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One design so far: "Lossless Compression of Random Data"



More Compact Storage

At a certain point, you can not compress your images any further without unacceptable loss of quality. Next question: How to store data more compact?
C60 Buckyballs
How C60 Buckyballs could store 250000 times more data, relative to an audio CD.



Other Things

Optical Compact Disc Code
How code is stored on a CD
(the 120 mm Compact Disc - Digital Audio, Red Book CD from 1982, by Philips & Sony).
MegaPixels & Image sensor size
why most digital compact cameras produce such incredible low quality..