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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Best compression for 24 bit images
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.201044.6598@unocal.com>
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- References: <1992Aug28.133552.16085@crd.ge.com> <POPAT.92Aug28140827@image.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 20:10:44 GMT
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- In article <POPAT.92Aug28140827@image.mit.edu> popat@image.mit.edu (Kris Popat) writes:
- >
- >> What is the best way to do lossless compression of 24 bit images? I am
- >> currently using 24 bit tiff with lzw and the pnmtotiff program
- >> (-predictor 2). JPEG is not lossless and can't be considered, the
- >> restored image must be pixel by pixel identical.
- >
- >JPEG does have a lossless coding mode -- you might want to see how it
- >compares in performance with what you're doing now.
- >
- >Not a whole lot of research has been done in lossless compression of
- >images, and of the work that has been done, the compression ratios are
- >not all that dramatic (e.g., 2.5:1 on average). The most popular
- >techniques among researchers seem to be variations on bit-planing in
- >conjunction with adaptive binary entropy coding.
-
- Compression is a lot like sorting algorithms: if you have some a priori
- information about the statistics of information you are trying to compress
- you can choose a more efficient algorithm. FAX people know what works well
- on text doesn't necessarily work as well on graphics, and vice-versa.
-