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A new line of research uses compression methods to measure the similarity between signals. Two signals are considered similar if one can be compressed significantly when the information of the other is known. The existing compression-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Tanaya Guha , Rabab K. Ward

Hyperspectral imaging offers new perspectives for diverse applications, ranging from the monitoring of the environment using airborne or satellite remote sensing, precision farming, food safety, planetary exploration, or astrophysics.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Théo Bodrito , Alexandre Zouaoui , Jocelyn Chanussot , Julien Mairal

An image super-resolution method from multiple observation of low-resolution images is proposed. The method is based on sub-pixel accuracy block matching for estimating relative displacements of observed images, and sparse signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Toshiyuki Kato , Hideitsu Hino , Noboru Murata

Autoencoders are a type of unsupervised neural networks, which can be used to solve various tasks, e.g., dimensionality reduction, image compression, and image denoising. An AE has two goals: (i) compress the original input to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

We propose a method for lossy image compression based on recurrent, convolutional neural networks that outperforms BPG (4:2:0 ), WebP, JPEG2000, and JPEG as measured by MS-SSIM. We introduce three improvements over previous research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Nick Johnston , Damien Vincent , David Minnen , Michele Covell , Saurabh Singh , Troy Chinen , Sung Jin Hwang , Joel Shor , George Toderici

Deep networks can be trained to map images into a low-dimensional latent space. In many cases, different images in a collection are articulated versions of one another; for example, same object with different lighting, background, or pose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif

We study the problem of reconstructing an image from information stored at contour locations. We show that high-quality reconstructions with high fidelity to the source image can be obtained from sparse input, e.g., comprising less than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tali Dekel , Chuang Gan , Dilip Krishnan , Ce Liu , William T. Freeman

Compressive imaging is an emerging application of compressed sensing, devoted to acquisition, encoding and reconstruction of images using random projections as measurements. In this paper we propose a novel method to provide a scalable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Sparse representation-based classifiers have shown outstanding accuracy and robustness in image classification tasks even with the presence of intense noise and occlusion. However, it has been discovered that the performance degrades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Xiaoxia Sun , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Trac D. Tran

This paper seeks to combine dictionary learning and hierarchical image representation in a principled way. To make dictionary atoms capturing additional information from extended receptive fields and attain improved descriptive capacity, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Tong Zhang , Fatih Porikli

Autoencoders are a prominent model in many empirical branches of machine learning and lossy data compression. However, basic theoretical questions remain unanswered even in a shallow two-layer setting. In particular, to what degree does a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kevin Kögler , Alexander Shevchenko , Hamed Hassani , Marco Mondelli

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as powerful techniques for interpretability of large language models (LLMs), aiming to decompose hidden states into meaningful semantic features. While several SAE variants have been proposed, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xudong Zhu , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Zhihui Zhu

Image compression has been investigated as a fundamental research topic for many decades. Recently, deep learning has achieved great success in many computer vision tasks, and is gradually being used in image compression. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Zhengxue Cheng , Heming Sun , Masaru Takeuchi , Jiro Katto

Dense embeddings deliver strong retrieval performance but often lack interpretability and controllability. This paper introduces a novel approach using sparse autoencoders (SAE) to interpret and control dense embeddings via the learned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hao Kang , Tevin Wang , Chenyan Xiong

Discriminative features extracted from the sparse coding model have been shown to perform well for classification. Recent deep learning architectures have further improved reconstruction in inverse problems by considering new dense priors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Abiy Tasissa , Emmanouil Theodosis , Bahareh Tolooshams , Demba Ba

Neural image compression, based on auto-encoders and overfitted representations, relies on a latent representation of the coded signal. This representation needs to be compact and uses low resolution feature maps. In the decoding process,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Pierrick Philippe , Théo Ladune , Gordon Clare , Félix Henry , Théophile Blard , Thomas Leguay

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become a central tool for interpreting language models. However, two key SAE analyses that remain difficult to scale are (1) matching semantically similar features across multi-layers and (2) compressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tue M. Cao , Nguyen Do , My T. Thai

Retinal implants aim to restore functional vision despite photoreceptor degeneration, yet are fundamentally constrained by low resolution electrode arrays and patient-specific perceptual distortions. Most deployed encoders rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Henning Konermann , Yuli Wu , Emil Mededovic , Volkmar Schulz , Peter Walter , Johannes Stegmaier

We propose a MultiScale AutoEncoder(MSAE) based extreme image compression framework to offer visually pleasing reconstruction at a very low bitrate. Our method leverages the "priors" at different resolution scale to improve the compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Chao Huang , Haojie Liu , Tong Chen , Qiu Shen , Zhan Ma

We present an end-to-end image compression system based on compressive sensing. The presented system integrates the conventional scheme of compressive sampling and reconstruction with quantization and entropy coding. The compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Xin Yuan , Raziel Haimi-Cohen