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Ill-posed inverse problems appear in many image processing applications, such as deblurring and super-resolution. In recent years, solutions that are based on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great promise. Yet, most of…
An efficient two-layer coding method using the histogram packing technique with the backward compatibility to the legacy JPEG is proposed in this paper. The JPEG XT, which is the international standard to compress HDR images, adopts…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) data compression is crucial for enabling efficient storage and transmission in 3D scene modeling. However, its development remains limited due to inadequate entropy models and suboptimal quantization strategies…
The incorporation of LiDAR technology into some high-end smartphones has unlocked numerous possibilities across various applications, including photography, image restoration, augmented reality, and more. In this paper, we introduce a novel…
This paper proposes using a Gaussian mixture model as a prior, for solving two image inverse problems, namely image deblurring and compressive imaging. We capitalize on the fact that variable splitting algorithms, like ADMM, are able to…
We offer a novel approach to image composition, which integrates multiple input images into a single, coherent image. Rather than concentrating on specific use cases such as appearance editing (image harmonization) or semantic editing…
Neural image compression (NIC) usually adopts a predefined family of probabilistic distributions as the prior of the latent variables, and meanwhile relies on entropy models to estimate the parameters for the probabilistic family. More…
We propose a context-adaptive entropy model for use in end-to-end optimized image compression. Our model exploits two types of contexts, bit-consuming contexts and bit-free contexts, distinguished based upon whether additional bit…
Recent advances in learned image codecs have been extended from human perception toward machine perception. However, progressive image compression with fine granular scalability (FGS)-which enables decoding a single bitstream at multiple…
Deep image compression performs better than conventional codecs, such as JPEG, on natural images. However, deep image compression is learning-based and encounters a problem: the compression performance deteriorates significantly for…
Learned image compression has achieved extraordinary rate-distortion performance in PSNR and MS-SSIM compared to traditional methods. However, it suffers from intensive computation, which is intolerable for real-world applications and leads…
This research presents a novel framework for the compression and decompression of medical images utilizing the Latent Diffusion Model (LDM). The LDM represents advancement over the denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) with a…
When a JPEG image is compressed using the loss compression method with a high compression rate, a blocking phenomenon can occur in the image, making it necessary to restore the image to its original quality. In particular, restoring…
The large memory requirements of deep neural networks limit their deployment and adoption on many devices. Model compression methods effectively reduce the memory requirements of these models, usually through applying transformations such…
Learned image compression (LIC) has achieved remarkable coding efficiency, where entropy modeling plays a pivotal role in minimizing bitrate through informative priors. Existing methods predominantly exploit internal contexts within the…
Recently, many deep image compression methods have been proposed and achieved remarkable performance. However, these methods are dedicated to optimizing the compression performance and speed at medium and high bitrates, while research on…
The framework of dominant learned video compression methods is usually composed of motion prediction modules as well as motion vector and residual image compression modules, suffering from its complex structure and error propagation…
Deep learning networks have become the de-facto standard in Computer Vision for industry and research. However, recent developments in their cousin, Natural Language Processing (NLP), have shown that there are areas where parameter-less…
This paper proposes a novel Non-Local Attention Optimized Deep Image Compression (NLAIC) framework, which is built on top of the popular variational auto-encoder (VAE) structure. Our NLAIC framework embeds non-local operations in the…
The field of computational imaging has witnessed a promising paradigm shift with the emergence of untrained neural networks, offering novel solutions to inverse computational imaging problems. While existing techniques have demonstrated…