Grade Category: 10 - 12

Team Size: 1

Subject Area: Computer Science

Project Type: Experimental

Language: English

A Summary of Project:
In my experiment, Image Compression Vs. Image Quality I tested to see if students in our school can notice the difference between a PNG, TIFF, JPG, JPG 50% , and JPG 25%. I noticed on the first set of data most people chose the right one (PNG), also in the first set I noticed that most people chose the least quality on the hall photo. In the second choice most people chose the wrong one. For the third choice most people got it right. Along with the fourth choice not many people chose the right one. And for the fifth choice most people chose the right one. Thus concluding that most people can’t tell the difference between very high quality and in-between compression, but most people can notice the difference on a low quality photo.

Software: Microsoft Office Front Page 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Picture & Fax Viewer

 Hardware: Canon EOS XTi Digital SLR Camera

I got this idea from the webpage-  <http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/CompSci_p006.shtml?fave=no&isb=c2lkOjEsaWE6Q29tcFNjaSxwOjEscmlkOjIyMDUxMDA&from=TSW>.

Awards: Gold in Category Saskatchewan, South East Regional Science Fair.