MMMay 16, 2016
Daala: A Perceptually-Driven Still Picture Codec
arXiv:1605.04930v1
Originality Synthesis-oriented
AI Analysis
This addresses the need for a royalty-free image format, but it is incremental as it builds on existing video codec technology.
The paper tackles the problem of creating a royalty-free still picture codec by adapting Daala's perceptually-driven keyframe format, showing improvements over the past year.
Daala is a new royalty-free video codec based on perceptually-driven coding techniques. We explore using its keyframe format for still picture coding and show how it has improved over the past year. We believe the technology used in Daala could be the basis of an excellent, royalty-free image format.