IEEE

Blind JPEG Artifacts Removal via Inverse JPEG Compression

Abstract: Quantization and chroma downsampling are two primary operations that introduce distortions in the JPEG compression. However, most existing blind methods treat artifacts removal as a direct ...
Security Boulevard

China-nexus Threat Actor Targets Persian Gulf Region With PlugX

IntroductionOn March 1, 2026, ThreatLabz observed new activity from a China-nexus threat actor targeting countries in the Persian Gulf region. The activity took place within the first 24 hours of the ...

Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.
IEEE

Rate-Distortion-Optimized Deep Preprocessing for JPEG Compression

Abstract: JPEG is daily used for compressing natural images, while the compressed images often contain visually annoying artifacts especially at low rates. To reduce the compression artifacts, it has ...