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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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This paper introduces Associative Compression Networks (ACNs), a new framework for variational autoencoding with neural networks. The system differs from existing variational autoencoders (VAEs) in that the prior distribution used to model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Alex Graves , Jacob Menick , Aaron van den Oord

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

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that have been widely used in various fields, including image and text generation. However, one of the known challenges in using VAEs is the model's sensitivity to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriela Sejnova , Michal Vavrecka , Karla Stepanova

Machine learning has had a major impact on data compression over the last decade and inspired many new, exciting theoretical and applied questions. This paper describes one such direction -- relative entropy coding -- which focuses on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gergely Flamich , Deniz Gündüz

Image compression and reconstruction are crucial for various digital applications. While contemporary neural compression methods achieve impressive compression rates, the adoption of such technology has been largely hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ethan G. Rogers , Cheng Wang

We propose an end-to-end learned image data hiding framework that embeds and extracts secrets in the latent representations of a generic neural compressor. By leveraging a perceptual loss function in conjunction with our proposed message…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Chen-Hsiu Huang , Ja-Ling Wu

Detectors in next-generation high-energy physics experiments face several daunting requirements, such as high data rates, damaging radiation exposure, and stringent constraints on power, space, and latency. To address these challenges,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-08-18 Alexander Yue , Haoyi Jia , Julia Gonski

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 propose a lossy image compression system using the deep-learning autoencoder structure to participate in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) 2018. Our autoencoder uses the residual blocks with skip connections to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 David Alexandre , Chih-Peng Chang , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Hsueh-Ming Hang

For neural video codec, it is critical, yet challenging, to design an efficient entropy model which can accurately predict the probability distribution of the quantized latent representation. However, most existing video codecs directly use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yan Lu

Event cameras are a cutting-edge type of visual sensors that capture data by detecting brightness changes at the pixel level asynchronously. These cameras offer numerous benefits over conventional cameras, including high temporal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ahmadreza Sezavar , Catarina Brites , Joao Ascenso

The latent representation in learned image compression encompasses channel-wise, local spatial, and global spatial correlations, which are essential for the entropy model to capture for conditional entropy minimization. Efficiently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Wei Jiang , Jiayu Yang , Yongqi Zhai , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Autoencoder-based image codecs achieve state-of-the-art compression performance but often incur high computational complexity, particularly at decoding time. This work introduces a low-complexity learned image compression framework based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Théophile Blard , Pierrick Philippe , Théo Ladune , Xiaoran Jiang , Olivier Déforges

This study presents a new lossy image compression method that utilizes the multi-scale features of natural images. Our model consists of two networks: multi-scale lossy autoencoder and parallel multi-scale lossless coder. The multi-scale…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-17 Ken Nakanishi , Shin-ichi Maeda , Takeru Miyato , Daisuke Okanohara

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models capable of learning compact latent representations. However, conventional VAEs often generate relatively blurry images due to their assumption of an isotropic Gaussian latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Andrew Kiruluta

Current vision systems typically assign fixed-length representations to images, regardless of the information content. This contrasts with human intelligence - and even large language models - which allocate varying representational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shivam Duggal , Phillip Isola , Antonio Torralba , William T. Freeman

Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in video frames referred by the natural language expression. Recently, the Transformerbased methods have greatly boosted the performance limit. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Yuexian Zou

The leading approach for image compression with artificial neural networks (ANNs) is to learn a nonlinear transform and a fixed entropy model that are optimized for rate-distortion performance. We show that this approach can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 David Minnen , George Toderici , Saurabh Singh , Sung Jin Hwang , Michele Covell

Recent advances in implicit neural representation (INR)-based video coding have demonstrated its potential to compete with both conventional and other learning-based approaches. With INR methods, a neural network is trained to overfit a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ho Man Kwan , Ge Gao , Fan Zhang , Andrew Gower , David Bull