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Recent advances in machine learning-aided lossy compression are incorporating perceptual fidelity into the rate-distortion theory. In this paper, we study the rate-distortion-perception trade-off when the perceptual quality is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xueyan Niu , Deniz Gündüz , Bo Bai , Wei Han

Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in both the capability and popularity of automatic machine analysis of images and video. As a result, a growing need for efficient compression methods optimized for machine vision, rather than…

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In lossy image compression, the objective is to achieve minimal signal distortion while compressing images to a specified bit rate. The increasing demand for visual analysis applications, particularly in classification tasks, has emphasized…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuefeng Zhang

We consider causal, low-latency, sequential lossy compression, with mean squared-error (MSE) as the distortion loss, and a perception loss function (PLF) to enhance the realism of reconstructions. As the main contribution, we propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Buu Phan , Likun Cai , Joao Atz Dick , Wei Yu , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

The distortion-rate function of output-constrained lossy source coding with limited common randomness is analyzed for the special case of squared error distortion measure. An explicit expression is obtained when both source and…

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The relation between nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function (RDF) and filtering theory is discussed on abstract spaces. The relation is established by imposing a realizability constraint on the reconstruction conditional distribution of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou , Nasir U. Ahmed

This paper studies the performance of sparse regression codes for lossy compression with the squared-error distortion criterion. In a sparse regression code, codewords are linear combinations of subsets of columns of a design matrix. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda

Learned image compression codecs have recently achieved impressive compression performances surpassing the most efficient image coding architectures. However, most approaches are trained to minimize rate and distortion which often leads to…

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Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

We consider a problem of coding for computing, where the decoder wishes to estimate a function of its local message and the source message at the encoder within a given distortion. We show that the rate-distortion function can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Bo Bai , Wei Han

Perception-aware lossy source coding has attracted significant recent interest. It augments the classical distortion criterion with an explicit perception constraint, thereby enabling more refined control over fidelity and perceptual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ali Hussein , Jun Chen , Chao Tian , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

The nascent field of Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory is seeing a surge of research interest due to the application of machine learning techniques in the area of lossy compression. The information RDP function characterizes the…

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This paper investigates applications of nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function (RDF) in a) zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) design based on average and excess distortion probability, b) in bounding the Optimal Performance…

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In lossy compression, Wang et al. [1] recently introduced the rate-distortion-perception-classification function, which supports multi-task learning by jointly optimizing perceptual quality, classification accuracy, and reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nam Nguyen , Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

A fundamental question in designing lossy data compression schemes is how well one can do in comparison with the rate-distortion function, which describes the known theoretical limits of lossy compression. Motivated by the empirical success…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

The information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function characterizes the three-way trade-off between description rate, average distortion, and perceptual quality measured by discrepancy between probability distributions and has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chunhui Chen , Xueyan Niu , Wenhao Ye , Hao Wu , Bo Bai

Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Many images and videos are primarily processed by computer vision algorithms, involving only occasional human inspection. When this content requires compression before processing, e.g., in distributed applications, coding methods must…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Samuel Fernández-Menduiña , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

In the theory of lossy compression, the rate-distortion (R-D) function $R(D)$ describes how much a data source can be compressed (in bit-rate) at any given level of fidelity (distortion). Obtaining $R(D)$ for a given data source establishes…

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