For The Love of Computing: Matching Your Eye to Images and Video — DCT and Quantization

So when does a 90TB one minute video become a 1MB file?

We take so many things for granted in this modern age. On our cameras, we create images using hi-res cameras, which we can easily upload. But, uncompressed, the files for a 20 Megapixel camera would be 50MB each, and if we recorded video at 30 frames per second…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

This publication brings together interesting articles related to cyber security.

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