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We consider the problem of causal source coding and causal decoding of a Gauss--Markov source, where the decoder has causal access to a side-information signal. We define the information causal rate-distortion function with causal decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Omri Lev , Anatoly Khina

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

We study the problem of compressing a source sequence in the presence of side-information that is related to the source via insertions, deletions and substitutions. We propose a simple algorithm to compress the source sequence when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

In the context of lossy compression, Blau & Michaeli (2019) adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the classical rate-distortion tradeoff. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 George Zhang , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached the limits of Shannon channel capacity, semantic communication has been recognized as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

We study lossy source coding under a distortion measure defined by the negative log-likelihood induced by a prescribed conditional distribution $P_{X|U}$. This \emph{log-likelihood distortion} models compression settings in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Anuj Kumar Yadav , Dan Song , Yanina Shkel , Ayfer Özgür

We study the problem of rate-distortion-equivocation with side-information only available at the decoder when an independent private random key is shared between the sender and the receiver. The sender compresses the sequence, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hamid Ghourchian , Photios A. Stavrou , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

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

We revisit the Gray-Wyner lossy source coding problem and derive the first-order asymptotic optimal rate-distortion-perception region when additional perception constraints are imposed on reproduced source sequences. The optimal trade-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yu Yang , Yingxin Zhang , Weijie Yuan , Lin Zhou

We identify an issue in multi-task learnable compression, in which a representation learned for one task does not positively contribute to the rate-distortion performance of a different task as much as expected, given the estimated amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Anderson de Andrade , Ivan Bajić

Motivated by video coding applications, the problem of sequential coding of correlated sources with encoding and/or decoding frame-delays is studied. The fundamental tradeoffs between individual frame rates, individual frame distortions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Nan Ma , Ye Wang , Prakash Ishwar

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Daniele Mari , Simone Milani

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Alon Harell , Yalda Foroutan , Nilesh Ahuja , Parual Datta , Bhavya Kanzariya , V. Srinivasa Somayazulu , Omesh Tickoo , Anderson de Andrade , Ivan V. Bajic

We consider a rate-distortion problem with side information at multiple decoders. Several upper and lower bounds have been proposed for this general problem or special cases of it. We provide an upper bound for general instances of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

We consider the rate distortion problem with side information at the decoder posed and investigated by Wyner and Ziv. The rate distortion function indicating the trade-off between the rate on the data compression and the quality of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Yasutada Oohama

We consider rate-distortion with two decoders, each with distinct side information. This problem is well understood when the side information at the decoders satisfies a certain degradedness condition. We consider cases in which this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

In this work, we investigate an instance of the Heegard-Berger problem with two sources and arbitrarily correlated side information sequences at two decoders, in which the reconstruction sets at the decoders are degraded. Specifically, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Meryem Benammar , Abdellatif Zaidi

We study strategic Gaussian semantic compression under rate and compute constraints, where an encoder and decoder optimize distinct quadratic objectives. A latent Gaussian state generates a task dependent semantic variable, and the decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Emrah Akyol

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on conveying the user's intended meaning rather than the bit-wise transmission of source signals. One of the key challenges is to effectively represent and extract the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi

Source coding with a side information "vending machine" is a recently proposed framework in which the statistical relationship between the side information and the source, instead of being given and fixed as in the classical Wyner-Ziv…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Behzad Ahmadi , Osvaldo Simeone