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; our founder and contributor to these efforts details how this was done.
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.