I literally can’t think of a scientific use case where lossy compression would be acceptable?
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zerofk@lemm.ee 4 days ago
“And while Spectral JPEG XL dramatically reduces file sizes, its lossy approach may pose drawbacks for some scientific applications.”
This is the part that confuses me. First of all, many applications that need spectral data need it to be as accurate as possible. Lossy compression in that might not be acceptable.
More interestingly (and I’ll read the actual paper for this): which data will be more compressed? Simply put, JPEG achieves its best compression by keeping the brightness but discarding colour. Which dimension in which spectral space do the researchers think can be more compressed than others? In this case there is no human visual system to base the decision on.
hera@feddit.uk 4 days ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Perhaps training an image classifier?
rice@lemmy.org 4 days ago
jpeg xl does support lossless and their 69 page paper does mention this so I am unsure why they are putting the lossy aspect of this as the comparison to their “lossless ZIP COMPRESSION of OpenEXR”
page 51 has more detail on compression stuff. The openEXR does also support lossy. Anyway I think page 51-52 would answer it for someone that knows more about openEXR which I sure don’t
Their comparison images do clearly show data being lost as well so they aren’t even using visually lossless of jpeg xl they are actually just going full lossy. Must be some use case somewhere?