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Comment by KKKKkkkk1

1 year ago

Is it accurate to say that wavelets were a promising avenue of research in the 1990s but interest in them has kind of died because they were obsoleted by CNNs?

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esafak  1 year ago

Because neural networks can learn a natural basis (on the manifold of natural images). And image compression is not an interesting problem any more.

eskaytwo  1 year ago

Not every problem needs a CNN thrown at it.

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