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Lossy Compression with Universal Distortion

Information Theory 2022-10-05 v3 math.IT

Abstract

We consider a novel variant of dd-semifaithful lossy coding in which the distortion measure is revealed only to the encoder and only at run-time, as well as an extension of it in which the distortion constraint dd is also revealed at run-time. Two forms of rate redundancy are used to analyze the performance, and achievability results of both a pointwise and minimax nature are demonstrated. The first coding scheme uses ideas from VC dimension and growth functions, the second uses appropriate quantization of the space of distortion measures, and the third relies on a random coding argument.

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@article{arxiv.2110.07022,
  title  = {Lossy Compression with Universal Distortion},
  author = {Adeel Mahmood and Aaron B. Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07022},
  year   = {2022}
}
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