1/10/2024 0 Comments Jpegmini print![]() Other potential clients that can benefit from the JPEGmini technology are businesses – especially those with huge repositories of images. Finally online storing and backing up of images can be costly and compressing them efficiently can save those costs. In many countries upload speeds are restricted and mobile data transfer can become costly when transferring many large images. JPEGmini can save space on the hard drive but can also save time when sending images using e-mail or other services (some of them are also limited by the size of files that can be transferred each time). JPEGmini has several advantages for photographers as well as other potential users. The technology which is based on several patent-pending algorithms, was developed to mimic the way the human eye (and mind) perceive images and to compress each image automatically to a level just above that where artifacts would begin to appear. If JPEGmini does not compress images beyond conventional JPEG, then you might ask what is the big innovation here? The answer has to do with the technology developed by ICVT which allows JPEGmini to compress any image just below the level where artifacts start to appear. On the upside JPEGmini doesn't have compatibility problems like other proprietary formats, issues which have severely restricted their use. This is unlike rival compression formats which are using different compression algorithms capable of reducing the file size further. The biggest disadvantage is that the theoretical compression threshold is limited by the JPEG format (we will discuss what JPEGmini was able to do about that later in the interview). This has both advantages and disadvantages. We will get to our interview with ICVT shortly, but first some background on JPEGmini. To learn more about the technology, we scheduled a meeting with ICVT – the start-up which has been working for the past several years on JPEGmini, located in one of Tel-Aviv’s tallest buildings (surprisingly just one floor below Google's main offices in Israel). To be honest we were quite skeptical – attempts have been made in the past to create improved image compression technologies, and when giants such as Google (with its WebP technology) breathing down its neck, JPEGmini has a lot to prove. Several weeks ago we accidentally came across a website of an unknown company with a bold statement – a new compression technology which can compress the file size of any image by up to 5 times with no visible loss of quality compared to the original image, all that while still being fully compatible with the current JPEG format. A revolution on its way? .il set out to test it and talk with the developers. Based on the JPEG format, the new JPEGmini is compatible with existing JPEG but capable of reducing the file size of an image by up to 5X without any visible loss of image quality. An Israeli company recently unveiled what might be the next generation of image compression technology.
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