“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.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This all sounds like standard jpeg compression. Is it just jpeg with extra channels?
Prok@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, it compresses better too though, and jpeg XL can be configured to compress lossless, which I imagine would also work here
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Lossless JPEG would be amazing.
wischi@programming.dev 4 days ago
It’s not just like jpeg with extra channels. It’s technically far superior, supports loss less compression, and the way the decompression works would make thumbnails obsolete. It can even recompress already existing jpeg even smaller without additional generation less. It’s hard to describe what a major step this format would be without getting very technical. A lot of operating systems and software already support is but the Google chrome team is practically preventing adoption because of company politics.
issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
uis@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Both og JPEG and JXL support lossless compression.
zerofk@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Kind of, but JPEG converts image data to its own internal 3 came channel colour space before applying DCT. It is not compressing the R, G and B channels of most images. So a multichannel compression is not just compressing each channel separately.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, jpeg converts to lab (or something similar, I think). But the dimensions are the same: one channel for lightness, and then a number of channels one less than the total number of sampled frequencies to capture the rest of the color space.