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Journey to JPEG XL: How open source experiments shaped the future of image coding

06.03

by Jyrki Alakuijala , Zoltán Szabadka & Luca Versari , Paradigms of Intelligence, Google Technology & Society Building the Next Generation Image Standard The internet runs on images.

Open weights compression image compression JPEG XL

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