Using AI to Super Compress Images

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commentsData driven algorithms like neural networks have taken the world by storm. They recent surge is due to several factors, including cheap and powerful hardware, and vast amounts of data. Neural Networks are currently the state of the art when it comes to ‘cognitive’ tasks like image recognition, natural language understanding , etc. ,but they don’t have to be limited to such tasks. In this post I will discuss a way to compress images using Neural Networks to achieve state of the art performance in image compression , at a considerably faster speed.This article is based on An End-to-End Compression Framework Based on Convolutional Neural NetworksThis article assumes some familiarity with neural networks, including convolutions and loss functions.What is image compression?Image compression is the process of converting an image so that it occupies less space. Simply storing the images would take up a lot of space, so there are codecs, such as JPEG and PNG that aim to reduce the …