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by pornel 3249 days ago
At the first glance it looks like it uses all the basic building blocks of JPEG, but with everything upgraded to the next level.

It uses the same 8x8 DCT blocks, but with adaptive quantization. Like JPEG it also codes DC separately, but with 8 predictors instead of 1, etc.

It's like a combination the Guetzli JPEG encoder and Lepton JPEG recompressor.

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Yes, PIK is like guetzli + lepton, but decodes 2-3x faster and compresses 20 % more.