On: Image Compression with Neural Networks

[nomel]

The NN images, for sure, have a problem reproducing sharp edges/have less high frequency content. Just look at the grass.

It appears to be a severely flawed metric.

[nomel → nomel]

By severely flawed metric, I meant,

> Presumably both the MS-SIM metric and humans would judge RNN better for these portions.

doesn't remotely hold for detailed/high contrast. If I can see a huge difference, and vastly prefer one over the other, the metric is not useful by its definition. Please don't get emotional about figures of merit.

I'm guessing a genuinely useful figure of merit would have put both file sizes a bit closer together, and the NN would have shined, especially since it works so well in low contrast areas.