PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification Version 1.0

By T. Boutell. 1997

This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits.

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Citations in the corpus

• Fast Lossless Neural Compression with Integer-Only Discrete Flows (2022, methodology): “Neural compressors have achieved superior compression ratios on standard datasets than traditional lossless compression methods, such as JPEG2000 (Group et al., 2000), PNG (Boutell & Lane, 1997) and ELIF (Sneyers & Wuille, 2016).”
• iVPF: Numerical Invertible Volume Preserving Flow for Efficient Lossless Compression (2021, background): “, PNG [4] and FLIF [33], on small and large scale datasets.”
• TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection (2010, unknown): “, ZLIB [35], PNG [23]).”
• iFlow: Numerically Invertible Flows for Efficient Lossless Compression via a Uniform Coder (2021, methodology): “We additionally include a number of conventional methods, such as PNG [5], FLIF [36] and JPEG-XL [2].”