[gdal-dev] GTiff bit shuffle compression feature request

[Even Rouault]

Jesse,

This would break interoperability with other TIFF readers... Even adding 
a new TIFF tag to advertize that bit shuffling is applied would probably 
not be a sufficient guard, as existing readers wouldn't read it, and 
would just display garbage, which is worth that not being able to open 
the file at all. The only way I can think off of doing that in a safe 
way would be to use new values for the Compression tag, which isn't 
pretty either.

You should probably try Zarr which has such capability with the Blosc 
codec. Cf https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/zarr.html : BLOSC_SHUFFLE

I'm curious however to know which typical compression gain you get with 
that.

Even


Le 08/12/2023 à 18:06, Meyer, Jesse R. (GSFC-618.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND 
APPLICATIONS INC] via gdal-dev a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> When using horizonal differencing to reduce the numerical range of 
> band data, the upper bytes in the produced stream are typically 0 
> which leverages LZ’s byte based compression model.  But the least 
> significant bytes can still have many significant bits as 0. Unless 
> the whole byte is replicated, LZ compressors can’t do much to leverage 
> the pattern however.  For data with temporal and or spatial coherence, 
> ‘shuffling’ is another effective strategy to losslessly reform the 
> data stream to be favorable to LZ style compressors.  And plays nicely 
> off gains already provided by the PREDICTOR functionality.
>
> The notion is to arrange the bit stream where the Nth “shuffled” byte 
> contains the Nth bit from each byte in the sequence.  The sequence 
> length is usually determined by the data type bit length.
>
> For example (for brevity, assume bytes are 4 bits long)
>
> Byte 1,  Byte 2, Byte 3, Byte 4
>
> 0001, 0011, 0111, 0001
>
> They all share the top 0 bit and the bottom 1 bit,
>
> “Shuffled”
>
> 0000, 0010, 0110, 1111
>
> The algorithm is pretty simple to implement, and can be SIMD 
> accelerated for high performance.
>
> While we specifically are users of the GTIFF format, such a strategy 
> could be employed generically for most raster and even vector formats.
>
> Best,
>
> Jesse
>
>
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