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Video variational autoencoders (VAEs) used in latent diffusion models typically require a sufficiently large number of latent channels to ensure high-quality video reconstruction. However, recent studies have revealed that an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiarui Guan , Wenshuai Zhao , Zhengtao Zou , Juho Kannala , Arno Solin

This paper presents variable bitrate lossy image compression using a VAE-based neural network. An adaptable image quality adjustment strategy is proposed. The key innovation involves adeptly adjusting the input scale exclusively during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Bouzid Arezki , Fangchen Feng , Anissa Mokraoui

Despite extensive progress on image generation, common deep generative model architectures are not easily applied to lossless compression. For example, VAEs suffer from a compression cost overhead due to their latent variables. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Anji Liu , Stephan Mandt , Guy Van den Broeck

We describe an image compression method, consisting of a nonlinear analysis transformation, a uniform quantizer, and a nonlinear synthesis transformation. The transforms are constructed in three successive stages of convolutional linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Johannes Ballé , Valero Laparra , Eero P. Simoncelli

In this study, we propose a novel scheme for systematic improvement of lossless image compression coders from the point of view of the universal codes in information theory. In the proposed scheme, we describe a generative model class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yuta Nakahara , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Most learning-based image compression methods lack efficiency for high image quality due to their non-invertible design. The decoding function of the frequently applied compressive autoencoder architecture is only an approximated inverse of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Marc Windsheimer , Fabian Brand , André Kaup

Motivated by the ever-increasing demands for limited communication bandwidth and low-power consumption, we propose a new methodology, named joint Variational Autoencoders with Bernoulli mixture models (VAB), for performing clustering in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Suya Wu , Enmao Diao , Jie Ding , Vahid Tarokh

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have seen widespread use in learned image compression. They are used to learn expressive latent representations on which downstream compression methods can operate with high efficiency. Recently proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Gergely Flamich , Marton Havasi , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

In this study, an image-assisted Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) parameter inverse method is proposed to identify the design parameters. In the proposed method, the images are mapped to a low-dimensional latent space by Variational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Jiaquan Wang , Yang Zeng , Xinchao Jiang , Hu Wang , Enying Li , Guangyao Li

Recent learning-based lossless image compression methods encode an image in the unit of subimages and achieve comparable performances to conventional non-learning algorithms. However, these methods do not consider the performance drop in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Hochang Rhee , Yeong Il Jang , Seyun Kim , Nam Ik Cho

Split computing distributes deep neural network inference between resource-constrained edge devices and cloud servers but faces significant communication bottlenecks when transmitting intermediate features. To this end, in this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mingyu Sung , Suhwan Im , Vikas Palakonda , Jae-Mo Kang

We describe an end-to-end trainable model for image compression based on variational autoencoders. The model incorporates a hyperprior to effectively capture spatial dependencies in the latent representation. This hyperprior relates to side…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-02 Johannes Ballé , David Minnen , Saurabh Singh , Sung Jin Hwang , Nick Johnston

Deep learning-based lossless compression methods offer substantial advantages in compressing medical volumetric images. Nevertheless, many learning-based algorithms encounter a trade-off between practicality and compression performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Qianhao Chen , Jietao Chen

This paper addresses the problem of lossy image compression, a fundamental problem in image processing and information theory that is involved in many real-world applications. We start by reviewing the framework of variational autoencoders…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Zhihao Duan , Ming Lu , Jack Ma , Yuning Huang , Zhan Ma , Fengqing Zhu

In this paper we present an end-to-end meta-learned system for image compression. Traditional machine learning based approaches to image compression train one or more neural network for generalization performance. However, at inference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Nannan Zou , Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jani Lainema , Miska Hannuksela , Emre Aksu , Esa Rahtu

Deep learning models have significantly improved the visual quality and accuracy on compressive sensing recovery. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for signal reconstruction from compressed measurements with image priors captured by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Shaojie Xu , Sihan Zeng , Justin Romberg

Recent advances in learning-based methods have markedly enhanced the capabilities of image compression. However, these methods struggle with high bit-depth volumetric medical images, facing issues such as degraded performance, increased…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Kai Wang , Yuanchao Bai , Daxin Li , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) models provide elegant methods for discovering underlying latent features within a data set, but inference in such models can be slow. We exploit the fact that completely random measures, which commonly used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-17 Avinava Dubey , Michael Minyi Zhang , Eric P. Xing , Sinead A. Williamson

This paper starts with a simple lossless ~1.5:1 compression algorithm for the weights of the Large Language Model (LLM) Llama2 7B [1] that can be implemented in ~200 LUTs in AMD FPGAs, processing over 800 million bfloat16 numbers per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Vincenzo Liguori

We propose a novel capsule network based variational encoder architecture, called Bayesian capsules (B-Caps), to modulate the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution in the latent space. We hypothesized that this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Harish RaviPrakash , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Ulas Bagci