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by vladdanilov 3466 days ago
The AI approach is interesting but there are just too many problems with it.

MozJPEG is actually using something similar called trellis quantization or soft-thresholding. The idea is to further quantize DCT coefficients in noisy areas. There are some limitations [1] though. But it's not an issue with locally sensitive metrics and can be improved with edge detection.

Another challenge here is to estimate the current image quality and the target error.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/129