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Variable Rate Image Compression via N-Gram Context based Swin-transformer

Image and Video Processing 2025-10-23 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Multimedia

Abstract

This paper presents an N-gram context-based Swin Transformer for learned image compression. Our method achieves variable-rate compression with a single model. By incorporating N-gram context into the Swin Transformer, we overcome its limitation of neglecting larger regions during high-resolution image reconstruction due to its restricted receptive field. This enhancement expands the regions considered for pixel restoration, thereby improving the quality of high-resolution reconstructions. Our method increases context awareness across neighboring windows, leading to a -5.86\% improvement in BD-Rate over existing variable-rate learned image compression techniques. Additionally, our model improves the quality of regions of interest (ROI) in images, making it particularly beneficial for object-focused applications in fields such as manufacturing and industrial vision systems.

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@article{arxiv.2510.00058,
  title  = {Variable Rate Image Compression via N-Gram Context based Swin-transformer},
  author = {Priyanka Mudgal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00058},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted at ISVC 2025

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