Quality and speed define an image encoder's compression performance. Consistency is a close third, and easily overlooked in image encoder design. What value does it provide, and how can we measure it?
Julio Barba works on improving state of the art multimedia compression technology at Google. In this interview, Julio talks to Gianni about the future of multimedia compression, looking at AV2 and beyond.
AVIF is a complex image format with a lot of potential. A significant amount of this potential was unlocked in 2024; Gianni Rosato, our founder and contributor to these efforts, details how this was done & talks about the future of modern image codecs on the Web.
Today we're excited to announce the Iris project, our in-house image encoder. We've begun work on Iris's first codec, Iris-WebP: A WebP encoder that brings impressive gains over the reference encoder.