Term: Quantization

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Term: Quantization

Definition:

A lossy compression technique that involves compressing a range of values to a single quantum value, usually to reduce file size. This may result in errors or flaws in an image, such as posterization, caused by reducing the data available in an image file to represent aspects such as colors.

Category:

Image

Resource:

Quantization (image processing) (Wikipedia article)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_(image_processing)

See also:

Compression (data); Posterization