oavif: A New Target Quality Encoding Framework for Faster Image Compression
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Summary
oavif is a new approach to target quality encoding in image compression, designed around smarter convergence strategies and quicker scoring to be as fast as possible. It introduces a framework that aims to produce images encoded at a particular quality set by the user according to some metric or visual quality index. This is useful for a range of users from small website owners to content delivery networks handling large volumes of images.
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Target quality encoding is one of the highest impact use cases for image compression.
A target quality encoder framework aims to produce an image encoded at a particular quality set by the user according to some metric or visual quality index.
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