While we all know that compression causes artifacts, just how much do you know about what causes them and how to reduce them? While the occurrence of artifacts would seem random, it is directly linked ...

Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG ...

We receive many emails each week from people wondering what "compression artifacts", "edge enhancement", and other video problems that we complain about when we review a disc with a really crappy ...