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For the last few decades, the application of signal-adaptive transform coding to video compression has been stymied by the large computational complexity of matrix-based solutions. In this paper, we propose a novel parametric approach to…

Current video coding standards, including H.264/AVC, HEVC, and VVC, employ discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete sine transform (DST), and secondary to Karhunen-Loeve transforms (KLTs) decorrelate the intra-prediction residuals.…

Image dehazing, a pivotal task in low-level vision, aims to restore the visibility and detail from hazy images. Many deep learning methods with powerful representation learning capability demonstrate advanced performance on non-homogeneous…

In this paper, we extend our previous work on the Expressive Neural Network (ENN), a multilayer perceptron with adaptive activation functions parametrized using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). Building upon previous work that…

In this paper, we introduce DCDepth, a novel framework for the long-standing monocular depth estimation task. Moving beyond conventional pixel-wise depth estimation in the spatial domain, our approach estimates the frequency coefficients of…

This paper explores image modeling from the frequency space and introduces DCTdiff, an end-to-end diffusion generative paradigm that efficiently models images in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) space. We investigate the design space of…

Convolutional neural networks are based on a huge number of trained weights. Consequently, they are often data-greedy, sensitive to overtraining, and learn slowly. We follow the line of research in which filters of convolutional neural…

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) achieves data compression by quantizing Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients, which inevitably introduces compression artifacts. Most existing JPEG quality enhancement methods operate in the…

Image steganography is the art of hiding information into a cover image. This paper presents a novel technique for Image steganography based on Block-DCT, where DCT is used to transform original image (cover image) blocks from spatial…

To efficiently compress the sign information of images, we address a sign retrieval problem for the block-wise discrete cosine transformation (DCT): reconstruction of the signs of DCT coefficients from their amplitudes. To this end, we…

Over-fitting-based image compression requires weights compactness for compression and fast convergence for practical use, posing challenges for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based methods. This paper presents a simple…

Cross-subject motor-imagery decoding remains a major challenge in EEG-based brain-computer interfaces. To mitigate strong inter-subject variability, recent work has emphasized manifold-based approaches operating on covariance…

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…

Building on crucial insights into the determining factors of the visual integrity of an image and the property of deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we have developed the Deep Feature Consistent Deep Image Transformation (DFC-DIT)…

We propose DepthTCM, a physics-aware end-to-end framework for depth map compression. In our framework of DepthTCM, the high-bit depth map is first converted to a conventional 3-channel image representation losslessly using a method inspired…

Linear canonical transforms (LCTs) are of importance in many areas of science and engineering with many applications. Therefore a satisfactory discrete implementation is of considerable interest. Although there are methods that link the…

In this paper, we propose a novel Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)-based neural network layer which we call DCT-perceptron to replace the $3\times3$ Conv2D layers in the Residual neural Network (ResNet). Convolutional filtering operations…

Discrete Fourier transforms~(DFTs) over finite fields have widespread applications in digital communication and storage systems. Hence, reducing the computational complexities of DFTs is of great significance. Recently proposed cyclotomic…

Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) has attracted more and more attention in routine clinical diagnosis assessment, therapy planning, etc., which can reduce the dose of X-ray radiation to patients. However, the noise caused by low X-ray…

The resurgence of deep neural networks has created an alternative pathway for low-dose computed tomography denoising by learning a nonlinear transformation function between low-dose CT (LDCT) and normal-dose CT (NDCT) image pairs. However,…