# Comparison of Lossless Image Formats

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02557 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.02557/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 25 Jun 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A Technical Overview of AV1](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.06091/) (2020)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In recent years, a bag with image and video compression formats has been torn. However, most of them are focused on lossy compression and only marginally support the lossless mode. In this paper, I will focus on lossless formats and the critical question: "Which one is the most efficient?" It turned out that FLIF is currently the most efficient format for lossless image compression. This finding is in contrast to that FLIF developers stopped its development in favor of JPEG XL.