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high_byte11/08/20242 repliesview on HN

why not? if you change one pixel by one pixel brightness unit it is perceptually the same.

for the record, I found liveportrait to be well within the uncanny valley. it looks great for ai generated avatars, but the difference is very perceptually noticeable on familiar faces. still it's great.


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LegionMammal97811/08/2024

For one, it doesn't obey the transitive property like a truly lossless process should: unless it settles into a fixed point, a perceptually lossless copy of a copy of a copy, etc., will eventually become perceptually different. E.g., screenshot-of-screenshot chains, each of which visually resembles the previous one, but which altogether make the original content unreadable.

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codeflo11/08/2024

GP is correct, that’s the definition of “lossy”. We don’t need to invent ever new marketing buzzwords for well-established technical concepts.

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