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This paper explores the possibility of extending the capability of pre-trained neural image compressors (e.g., adapting to new data or target bitrates) without breaking backward compatibility, the ability to decode bitstreams encoded by the…

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Analyzing large-scale data from simulations of turbulent flows is memory intensive, requiring significant resources. This major challenge highlights the need for data compression techniques. In this study, we apply a physics-informed Deep…

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Learned image compression has recently shown the potential to outperform the standard codecs. State-of-the-art rate-distortion (R-D) performance has been achieved by context-adaptive entropy coding approaches in which hyperprior and…

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In many ultrasonic imaging systems, data acquisition and image formation are performed on separate computing devices. Data transmission is becoming a bottleneck, thus, efficient data compression is essential. Compression rates can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-02 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Kees Joost Batenburg , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Image denoising is an important problem in low-level vision and serves as a critical module for many image recovery tasks. Anisotropic diffusion is a wide family of image denoising approaches with promising performance. However, traditional…

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Ptychography is a computational imaging technique that has risen in popularity in the x-ray and electron microscopy communities in the past half decade. One of the reasons for this success is the development of new high performance electron…

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Image compression emerges as a pivotal tool in the efficient handling and transmission of digital images. Its ability to substantially reduce file size not only facilitates enhanced data storage capacity but also potentially brings…

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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Zhiyuan Li , Chenyang Ge , Shun Li

Learned image compression has a problem of non-bit-exact reconstruction due to different calculations of floating point arithmetic on different devices. This paper shows a method to achieve a deterministic reconstructed image by quantizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Esin Koyuncu , Timofey Solovyev , Johannes Sauer , Elena Alshina , André Kaup

This paper introduces the notion of soft bits to address the rate-distortion optimization for learning-based image compression. Recent methods for such compression train an autoencoder end-to-end with an objective to strike a balance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 David Alexandre , Chih-Peng Chang , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Hsueh-Ming Hang

We give an algorithm that learns a representation of data through compression. The algorithm 1) predicts bits sequentially from those previously seen and 2) has a structure and a number of computations similar to an autoencoder. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-05 Karol Gregor , Yann LeCun

It has been witnessed that learned image compression has outperformed conventional image coding techniques and tends to be practical in industrial applications. One of the most critical issues that need to be considered is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-01 Dailan He , Ziming Yang , Yuan Chen , Qi Zhang , Hongwei Qin , Yan Wang

In recent years, there has been rapid development in learned image compression techniques that prioritize ratedistortion-perceptual compression, preserving fine details even at lower bit-rates. However, current learning-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peirong Ning , Wei Jiang , Ronggang Wang

Deep Learning in Image Registration (DLIR) methods have been tremendously successful in image registration due to their speed and ability to incorporate weak label supervision at training time. However, existing DLIR methods forego many of…

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End-to-end learned lossy image coders (LICs), as opposed to hand-crafted image codecs, have shown increasing superiority in terms of the rate-distortion performance. However, they are mainly treated as black-box systems and their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Zhihao Duan , Ming Lu , Zhan Ma , Fengqing Zhu

We present a novel approach to transcranial ultrasound computed tomography that utilizes normalizing flows to improve the speed of imaging and provide Bayesian uncertainty quantification. Our method combines physics-informed methods and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Rafael Orozco , Mathias Louboutin , Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Herrmann

High levels of noise usually exist in today's captured images due to the relatively small sensors equipped in the smartphone cameras, where the noise brings extra challenges to lossy image compression algorithms. Without the capacity to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Ka Leong Cheng , Yueqi Xie , Qifeng Chen

Likelihood-based generative models are the backbones of lossless compression due to the guaranteed existence of codes with lengths close to negative log likelihood. However, there is no guaranteed existence of computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jonathan Ho , Evan Lohn , Pieter Abbeel

We propose a compressive sensing algorithm that exploits geometric properties of images to recover images of high quality from few measurements. The image reconstruction is done by iterating the two following steps: 1) estimation of normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Virginia Estellers , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Xavier Bresson

Lossy compression introduces complex compression artifacts, particularly blocking artifacts, ringing effects and blurring. Existing algorithms either focus on removing blocking artifacts and produce blurred output, or restore sharpened…

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