Abstract: JPEG-2000 coding introduces at high compression ratios, some perceptual impairments (blurring and ringing effects), which can be exploited by a no reference (NR) quality metric. Even if ...

Mina has been playing video games for her whole life. She hails from Virginia in the USA, and she loves cozy games, FPSs, MMOs, and puzzle games. She lives in Richmond with her husband and her kitty, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Humberto has rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane, and parts of the northern Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Bermuda could see its impact as early as Saturday night.

President Donald Trump said Friday he would order his administration to declassify and release all records related to famed American pilot Amelia Earhart. “Amelia made it almost three quarters around ...

This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 25 episode of “Deadline: White House.” After Democrat Adelita Grijalva secured a win Tuesday in a special election in Arizona, the House appears to be one ...

When a bank lends you money to buy a house or a car, it looks at your overall finances. How much money do you make? How much debt do you have? How good have you been at paying off past debts? It's ...

Abstract: An encryption scheme of JPEG images in the bitstream domain is proposed. The proposed scheme preserves the JPEG format even after encrypting the images, and the file size of encrypted images ...

Whether born in the prosperous capitalist democracy of the south or the communist monarchy of the north, every Korean learns that their country came to be because bears have a higher tolerance for ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's release is just under two months away, and with a general lack of excitement after the game's reveal trailer, Activision was going to have its hands full trying to generate ...

A wartime bomb unearthed in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay neighbourhood was “very likely” to have been dropped by the US military on April 2, 1945, with its explosive power “practically intact” because of ...