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This is just incredibly impressive on the surface. I wonder if it could be used for compression of videos and pictures?
by chis 9y ago
This is just incredibly impressive on the surface. I wonder if it could be used for compression of videos and pictures?
- tdb7893 9y agoIf you google something like "neural net compression" you'll see a paper on it. It doesn't beat standard compression right now as far as I know
- psb217 9y agoThere's some cool new work -- to be presented at ICML in August -- that claims practical improvements over existing compression methods by using neural nets for "adaptive compression". The authors are strong academic researchers and appear to have formed a startup around this tech. ICML is a rigorous venue, subject to selective peer review. This is also my area of expertise, though I'm not affiliated with the authors of this paper. Link to project: http://www.wave.one/icml2017/ http://www.wave.one/icml2017/
- santaclaus 9y agoI'm waiting for someone to train a NN to make over compressed Spotify streaming to sound not-crappy.
- spynxic 9y agoPerhaps the solution could be approached from the receiving end, during decompression, given some kind of information about the appropriate form of the decompressed stream.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoLike feed in a compressed file (OGG or whatever) feed in a lossless file (FLAC say) and have the [ML] system create an algorithm to run at the receiver that will more closely approximate the lossless output. This has been done before surely, like compression with varying decompression algos the characteristics of which are sent with the compressed stream to enable more optimal reproduction of the originally encoded data??
- voltagex_ 9y agoIt's almost time for youmightnotneedmachinelearning.com AFAIK Spotify uses Vorbis for their streaming. Perhaps if they switched to Opus things would sound better.