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While standardized codecs like JPEG and HEVC-intra represent the industry standard in image compression, neural Learned Image Compression (LIC) codecs represent a promising alternative. In detail, integrating attention mechanisms from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Gabriele Spadaro , Alberto Presta , Enzo Tartaglione , Jhony H. Giraldo , Marco Grangetto , Attilio Fiandrotti

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

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

A rapidly increasing portion of Internet traffic is dominated by requests from mobile devices with limited- and metered-bandwidth constraints. To satisfy these requests, it has become standard practice for websites to transmit small and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Shumeet Baluja , Dave Marwood , Nick Johnston , Michele Covell

One critical component in lossy deep image compression is the entropy model, which predicts the probability distribution of the quantized latent representation in the encoding and decoding modules. Previous works build entropy models upon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Yichen Qian , Ming Lin , Xiuyu Sun , Zhiyu Tan , Rong Jin

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

Transformers have led to learning-based image compression methods that outperform traditional approaches. However, these methods often suffer from high complexity, limiting their practical application. To address this, various strategies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Bouzid Arezki , Anissa Mokraoui , Fangchen Feng

State-of-the-art methods for Transformer-based semantic segmentation typically adopt Transformer decoders that are used to extract additional embeddings from image embeddings via cross-attention, refine either or both types of embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qishuai Wen , Chun-Guang Li

Static scene videos, such as surveillance feeds and videotelephony streams, constitute a dominant share of storage consumption and network traffic. However, both traditional standardized codecs and neural video compression (NVC) methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Cheng Yuan , Zhenyu Jia , Jiawei Shao , Xuelong Li

Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) technology aims to tackle the challenge of restoring the degraded underwater images due to light absorption and scattering. To address problems, a novel U-Net based Reinforced Swin-Convs Transformer for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Tingdi Ren , Haiyong Xu , Gangyi Jiang , Mei Yu , Ting Luo

Image compression at extremely low bitrates (below 0.1 bits per pixel (bpp)) is a significant challenge due to substantial information loss. In this work, we propose a novel two-stage extreme image compression framework that exploits the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 Zhiyuan Li , Yanhui Zhou , Hao Wei , Chenyang Ge , Jingwen Jiang

Image compression has been investigated as a fundamental research topic for many decades. Recently, deep learning has achieved great success in many computer vision tasks, and is gradually being used in image compression. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Zhengxue Cheng , Heming Sun , Masaru Takeuchi , Jiro Katto

Learned image compression (LIC) has shown great promise for achieving high rate-distortion performance. However, current LIC methods are often limited in their capability to model the complex correlation structures inherent in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhineng Zhao , Zhihai He , Zikun Zhou , Siwei Ma , Yaowei Wang

Compressive imaging is an emerging application of compressed sensing, devoted to acquisition, encoding and reconstruction of images using random projections as measurements. In this paper we propose a novel method to provide a scalable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

Currently, vision encoder models like Vision Transformers (ViTs) typically excel at image recognition tasks but cannot simultaneously support text recognition like human visual recognition. To address this limitation, we propose UNIT, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yi Zhu , Yanpeng Zhou , Chunwei Wang , Yang Cao , Jianhua Han , Lu Hou , Hang Xu

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda

The explosion of data has resulted in more and more associated text being transmitted along with images. Inspired by from distributed source coding, many works utilize image side information to enhance image compression. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shiyu Qin , Bin Chen , Yujun Huang , Baoyi An , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

Infrared and visible image fusion, as a hot topic in image processing and image enhancement, aims to produce fused images retaining the detail texture information in visible images and the thermal radiation information in infrared images. A…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Shuang Xu , Kai Sun , Chunxia Zhang , Junmin Liu

Neural image compression (NIC) has received considerable attention due to its significant advantages in feature representation and data optimization. However, most existing NIC methods for volumetric medical images focus solely on improving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Jietao Chen , Weijie Chen , Qianjian Xing , Feng Yu

Decoding remote sensing images to achieve high perceptual quality, particularly at low bitrates, remains a significant challenge. To address this problem, we propose the invertible neural network-based remote sensing image compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Junhui Li , Xingsong Hou