The reason this can be done with JPEGs is the compression hasn't been updated. There are folks that have used h264 for compressing images and webp uses vp8 compression, both with much better results than JPEG.
Lepton is cool because it helps make existing technology a whole lot better, but what we actually need is a better image format.
You wouldn't see the same leap for videos because people have been working hard to make those great for a while while JPEG has been left to rot.
Lepton is cool because it helps make existing technology a whole lot better, but what we actually need is a better image format.
You wouldn't see the same leap for videos because people have been working hard to make those great for a while while JPEG has been left to rot.