- The result is now indeed closest among possible results for all inputs, which
was not the case for bits>4, where the mapping was not even monotonic because
GetValAndDistance was correct only if the significant part of initial fit in
a byte at most twice.
- The set of results for a larger number of bits dropped is a subset of values
for a smaller number of bits dropped. This implies that subsequent
discretizations for a smaller number of bits dropped do not change already
discretized pixels, which improves the quality (changes do not accumulate)
and compression density (values tend to repeat more often).
- Errors are more fairly distributed between upwards and downwards thanks to
bankers’ rounding, which avoids images getting darker or lighter in overall.
- Deltas between discretized values are more repetitive. This improves
compression density if delta encoding is used.
Also, the implementation is much shorter now.
Change-Id: I0a98e7d5255e91a7b9c193a156cf5405d9701f16
Updated the near-lossless level mapping and make it correlated to lossy
quality i.e 100 => minimum loss (in-fact no-loss) and the visual-quality loss
increases with decrease in near-lossless level (quality) till value 0.
The new mapping implies following (PSNR) loss-metric:
-near_lossless 100: No-loss (bit-stream same as -lossless).
-near_lossless 80: Very very high PSNR (around 54dB).
-near_lossless 60: Very high PSNR (around 48dB).
-near_lossless 40: High PSNR (around 42dB).
-near_lossless 20: Moderate PSNR (around 36dB).
-near_lossless 0: Low PSNR (around 30dB).
Change-Id: I930de4b18950faf2868c97d42e9e49ba0b642960
Enable the WebP near-lossless feature by pre-processing the image to smoothen
the pixels.
On a 1000 PNG image corpus, for which WebP lossless (default settings) gets
25% compression gains, following is the performance of near-lossless feature
at various '-near_lossless' levels:
-near_lossless 90: 30% (very very high PSNR 54-60dB)
-near_lossless 75: 38% (very high PSNR 48-54dB)
-near_lossless 50: 45% (high PSNR 42-48dB)
-near_lossless 25: 48% (moderate PSNR 36-42dB)
-near_lossless 10: 50% (PSNR 30-36dB)
WebP near-lossless is specifically useful for discrete-tone images like
line-art, icons etc.
Change-Id: I7d12a2c9362ccd076d09710ea05c85fa64664c38
Cleaup Near-lossless code
- Simplified and refactored the code.
- Removed the requirement (TODO) to allocate the buffer of size WxH and work
with buffer of size 3xW.
- Disabled the Near-lossless prr-processing for small icon images (W < 64 and H < 64).
Change-Id: Id7ee90c90622368d5528de4dd14fd5ead593bb1b
Compared to previous mode it gives another 10-30% improvement in compression keeping comparable PSNR on corresponding quality settings.
Still protected by the WEBP_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES flag.
Change-Id: I4821815b9a508f4f38c98821acaddb74c73c60ac
This compresses the uimage using lossless compression and controlable
decimating pre-process.
Code is under WEBP_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURE while it's being experimented with.
Change-Id: I8b7f4cfcc3c6afc52a556102842bdbb045ed5ee8
