<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>These last 2 months I have been
in contact with a very impressive and friendly engineer from Intel who
has written an article on my codec and the 4-5 new codecs in general
that competes with HEVC.He finally answered me that as Intel is a
founding member of the Alliance for Open Media and chairs several MPEG
WG around HEVC, they won't be able to put extra resources on the NHW
Project.So far nothing surprising, Xiph.org was also not interested in
the NHW Project, but the good news is that I told the Intel engineer
that I would like to complete the NHW Project and as Intel is highly
involved in the open-source movement, they will maybe try to tell me
what points need to be improved in my codec, what points are not good
and need to be fixed, which processings I could try in the codec... That
would be so great and so kind from Intel!<br><br></div>I will maybe
have some help on how to code good lower quality settings (high
compression) because it is certainly the main task that remains.For now,
I don't have freelance contract to work on the NHW Project so I am not
able to really work on it currently, I think paying an engineer for that
purpose is too expensvie, so I will try to make a (complete) TODO list
to finish the project and give it to the open-source commuity.<br><br></div>First
thoughts, there are, coding lower quality settings, better YUV420 2x2
up- and down- samplings, a dozen of (fast) algorithm
refinements/tunings, process on rows and columns for the DWT and suppress
image transposition, some advanced improvements to the compression schemes, and when all that is done, adapt the codec to any
size of image, and then I think the NHW codec will be completed and ready.<br><br></div><div>If
some few people are interested to give a little of their time, and work
on the project, really do not hesitate to let me know, it would be so great!!!
You are also welcome to propagate the call on other forums, networks...
-It makes me think I have created a Twitter page:
<a href="https://twitter.com/NHW_Project">https://twitter.com/NHW_Project</a> -.And yes!, working on the NHW Project is
competitive and challenging, the NHW codec is a new advanced
royalty-free approach with very good results, and who knows, maybe the
industry will realize that AOM AV1 or HEVC are too slow to encode to use
it in portable phones, cameras, tablets and other portables devices and
they will maybe reconsider faster codecs... and the NHW codec is ultra
fast, certainly the fastest!<br><br></div><div>Again if you want to join and work on the open-source NHW Project, you are more than welcome, it would be much appreciated!<br><br></div><div>For
now there is one researcher from India that gives some of his time and
studies directional wavelet transforms in the NHW codec.<br><br></div><div>Many thanks!<br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Raphael<br></div><br></div>