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In this work, we propose an end-to-end block-based auto-encoder system for image compression. We introduce novel contributions to neural-network based image compression, mainly in achieving binarization simulation, variable bit rates with…
A deep image compression scheme is proposed in this paper, offering the state-of-the-art compression efficiency, against the traditional JPEG, JPEG2000, BPG and those popular learning based methodologies. This is achieved by a novel…
Learned image compression (LIC) has recently made significant progress, surpassing traditional methods. However, most LIC approaches operate mainly in the spatial domain and lack mechanisms for reducing frequency-domain correlations. To…
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Recent advancements in deep learning-based image compression are notable. However, prevalent schemes that employ a serial context-adaptive entropy model to enhance rate-distortion (R-D) performance are markedly slow. Furthermore, the…
We propose a video compression framework using conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We rely on two encoders: one that deploys a standard video codec and another which generates low-level maps via a pipeline of down-sampling,…
As the latest video coding standard, versatile video coding (VVC) has shown its ability in retaining pixel quality. To excavate more compression potential for video conference scenarios under ultra-low bitrate, this paper proposes a bitrate…
The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were proposed in the loop of…
In this paper, we propose a progressive learning paradigm for transformer-based variable-rate image compression. Our approach covers a wide range of compression rates with the assistance of the Layer-adaptive Prompt Module (LPM). Inspired…
This paper introduces a novel convolution method, called generative convolution (GConv), which is simple yet effective for improving the generative adversarial network (GAN) performance. Unlike the standard convolution, GConv first selects…
Even though rate-distortion optimization is a crucial part of traditional image and video compression, not many approaches exist which transfer this concept to end-to-end-trained image compression. Most frameworks contain static compression…
Perceptual optimization is widely recognized as essential for neural compression, yet balancing the rate-distortion-perception tradeoff remains challenging. This difficulty is especially pronounced in video compression, where frame-wise…
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…
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In recent years, the field of learned video compression has witnessed rapid advancement, exemplified by the latest neural video codecs DCVC-DC that has outperformed the upcoming next-generation codec ECM in terms of compression ratio.…
Deep convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to image classification tasks. When these same networks have been applied to image retrieval, the assumption has been made that the last layers would give the best…
Deep learning based image compression methods have achieved superior performance compared with transform based conventional codec. With end-to-end Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) in the codec, compression model is optimized with Lagrange…
Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC) standard achieves better image quality when keeping the same bits than any other conventional image codec, such as BPG, JPEG, and etc. However, it is still attractive and challenging to improve the image…
We propose a versatile deep image compression network based on Spatial Feature Transform (SFT arXiv:1804.02815), which takes a source image and a corresponding quality map as inputs and produce a compressed image with variable rates. Our…