[svantana]

Very impressive work, though it seems like a mistake to focus on compression, which gets less valuable as storage and bandwidth gets cheaper. You need only look to the staying power of jpeg, which is so far from the state of the art, yet it's not going anywhere. Why? The demand for replacing it is not strong enough.

They obviously have some good image priors here, if I were them I would consider applying this tech to other image-related things, like image manipulation, or image search. Although competition is heating up quickly in these fields...

[CyberDildonics]

It isn't 'very impressive work', it is marketing for Silicon Valley (impressive marketing though).

Literally the first sentence of the linked page:

"Even though over 70% of internet traffic today is digital media, the way images and video are represented and transmitted has not evolved much in the past 20 years (apart from Pied Piper's Middle-Out algorithm)."

EDIT: This is embarrassing that not one person in this thread seems to have actually read any of the paper. Now with obvious evidence that this is fiction, people still don't want to believe it.

[bhouston]

There are real people behind it:

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=reEAEWsAAAAJ&hl=en

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=OXFjRnEAAAAJ&hl=en

Company entry on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/12953035/

[CyberDildonics]

It literally quotes a fictional TV show in the synopsis and directly in the paper. Are you seriously not getting that is is fiction?

Why would they have this in the actual PDF?

"Finally, Pied Piper has recently claimed to employ ML techniques in its Middle-Out algorithm (Judge et al., 2016), although their nature is shrouded in mystery"

This is promotion, they are getting a fake paper to permeate throughout the internet. If I had to guess, I would say they are making a statement about reproducing results in academia and not taking a single paper as gospel. If so, I think they are making their point pretty well.

[bhouston]

Okay, it may be. It is something that can be done from a technical level for sure, given enough training data and enough data on the client side to do reconstructions.

I guess once you get popular enough you can get TV consultants who can propose real solutions as TV props. Heh.

[dschndstryr]

It's humor. Everything else looks kinda real. The science is bad though, because it lacks all details needed to reproduce and the evaluation is a bit fishy. They also claim it's super fast without mentioning what makes their approach fast.

[CyberDildonics]

No one else seems to realize that.