will be called by alpha post-processing, although doing nothing for now.
Gradient smoothing would be nice-to-have here. Patch welcome!
Change-Id: I534cde866bdc75da22d0f0a6d1373c90e21366f3
* Method #1 is now calling the lossless encoder on the alpha plane.
Format is not final, it's just a first draft. We need ad-hoc functions.
* removed now useless utils/alpha.*
* added utils/quant_levels.h instead
* removed the TCoder code altogether
Change-Id: I636840b6129a43171b74860e0a0fc5bb1bcffc6a
Add code for Alpha encoding & decoding. The alpha compression is done
via backward reference counts encoded with Arithmetic encoder (TCoder).
Also provided is lossy Alpha pre-processing option via level-quantizations
using kNN heuristic.
Change-Id: Ib6b13530c1a4ab6493edcb586ad29fe242bc1766