A year ago, I talked about JPEG XL at ImageCon 2019. It’s time for an update. JPEG XL is a next-generation image codec currently being standardized by the JPEG Committee. Based on Google’s PIK codec and Cloudinary’s Free Universal Image Format (FUIF) codec, JPEG XL has created a sum that’s greater than the parts by leveraging the best elements of Google PIK and FUIF: From PIK, JPEG XL has reaped the focus on strong psychovisual modeling and preservation of detail and texture, as well as decode s...