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 Note that the image generation does not take advantage of GPUs or
 multi-core, and can be as fast as 10,000 vignettes per second and as
 slow as 40 on a 4GHz i7-6700K.
+
+# Vignette compression #
+
+The two additional functions
+
+```
+torch.ByteStorage svrt.compress(torch.ByteStorage x)
+```
+
+and
+
+```
+torch.ByteStorage svrt.uncompress(torch.ByteStorage x)
+```
+
+provide a lossless compression scheme adapted to the ByteStorage of
+the vignette ByteTensor (i.e. expecting a lot of 255s, a few 0s, and
+no other value).
+
+This compression reduces the memory footprint by a factor ~50, and may
+be usefull to deal with very large data-sets and avoid re-generating
+images at every batch. It induces a little overhead for decompression,
+and moving from CPU to GPU memory.
+
+See vignette_set.py for a class CompressedVignetteSet using it.
+
+# Testing convolution networks #
+
+The file
+
+```
+cnn-svrt.py
+```
+
+provides the implementation of two deep networks, and use the
+compressed vignette code to allow the training with several millions
+vignettes on a PC with 16Gb and a GPU with 8Gb.
+
+The networks were designed by Afroze Baqapuri during an internship at
+Idiap.