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Fidelity-Controllable Extreme Image Compression with Generative Adversarial Networks

Image and Video Processing 2023-06-01 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

We propose a GAN-based image compression method working at extremely low bitrates below 0.1bpp. Most existing learned image compression methods suffer from blur at extremely low bitrates. Although GAN can help to reconstruct sharp images, there are two drawbacks. First, GAN makes training unstable. Second, the reconstructions often contain unpleasing noise or artifacts. To address both of the drawbacks, our method adopts two-stage training and network interpolation. The two-stage training is effective to stabilize the training. Moreover, the network interpolation utilizes the models in both stages and reduces undesirable noise and artifacts, while maintaining important edges. Hence, we can control the trade-off between perceptual quality and fidelity without re-training models. The experimental results show that our model can reconstruct high quality images. Furthermore, our user study confirms that our reconstructions are preferable to state-of-the-art GAN-based image compression model. The code will be available.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10314,
  title  = {Fidelity-Controllable Extreme Image Compression with Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author = {Shoma Iwai and Tomo Miyazaki and Yoshihiro Sugaya and Shinichiro Omachi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10314},
  year   = {2023}
}

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8 pages, 11 figures

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