lossy compression

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lossy
adjective
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/ˈlɒs.i/us
/ˈlɑː.si/
involving the loss of data or of electrical ...
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compression
noun[U]
uk
/kəmˈpreʃ.ən/us
/kəmˈpreʃ.ən/
the act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it ...
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An architecture forlossycompressionof waveforms using piecewise-linear approximation.
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To determine precisely how rule-parsing should be used requires a decision as to what is to be preserved under compaction (c. f. the 'model' of alossycompressionmethod).
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Lossycompressionmethods, especially when used at low bit rates, introduce compression artifacts.
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This makeslossycompressionunsuitable for storing the intermediate results in professional audio engineering applications, such as sound editing and multitrack recording.
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Depending on the specific method used, recovery of the embedded auxiliary data can be robust to post-processing (such aslossycompression).
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The minimization of perceivable artifacts is a key goal in implementing alossycompressionalgorithm.
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Automatic restorage of information that was lost through alossycompressionprocess would probably require important advances in artificial intelligence.
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As a result, all resulting videos havelossycompressionapplied and there is no facility for managing full format video.
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The purpose is to provide significantly higher quality video compared tolossycompression, allowing even resolution upscaling.
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Due to the loss of time resolution oflossycompression, this method is inexact.
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This is the same insight used in many forms oflossycompression.
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Audio quality degrades significantly after multiple instances oflossycompression.
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It is suitable for both lossless andlossycompression.
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As in alllossycompression, there is a trade-off between video quality, cost of processing the compression and decompression, and system requirements.
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It is a lossless compression technique, although the video coding standards in which it is used are typically forlossycompressionapplications.
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Developinglossycompressiontechniques as closely matched to human perception as possible is a complex task.
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With that simple calculation, it is obvious that without using alossycompressionmethods service providers service delivery to the subscribers is limited.
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The amount of data reduction possible usinglossycompressioncan often be much more substantial than what is possible with lossless data compression techniques.
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Lossycompressionis most commonly used to compress multimedia data (audio, video, and still images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony.
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H.264 is typically used forlossycompressionin the strict mathematical sense, although the amount of loss may sometimes be imperceptible.
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