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Image restoration algorithms are typically evaluated by some distortion measure (e.g. PSNR, SSIM, IFC, VIF) or by human opinion scores that quantify perceived perceptual quality. In this paper, we prove mathematically that distortion and…
The graph Hilbert transform (GHT) is a key tool in constructing analytic signals and extracting envelope and phase information in graph signal processing. However, its utility is limited by confinement to the graph Fourier domain, a fixed…
Image quality is a nebulous concept with different meanings to different people. To quantify image quality a relative difference is typically calculated between a corrupted image and a ground truth image. But what metric should we use for…
Image metrics predict the perceived per-pixel difference between a reference image and its degraded (e. g., re-rendered) version. In several important applications, the reference image is not available and image metrics cannot be applied.…
The Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) is generally considered to be a milestone in the recent history of Image Quality Assessment (IQA). Alas, SSIM's accepted development from the product of three heuristic factors continues to obscure…
Recent contributions of semantic information theory reveal the set-element relationship between semantic and syntactic information, represented as synonymous relationships. In this paper, we propose a synonymous variational inference (SVI)…
This paper proposes a new end-to-end trainable model for lossy image compression, which includes several novel components. The method incorporates 1) an adequate perceptual similarity metric; 2) saliency in the images; 3) a hierarchical…
The graph Fourier transform (GFT) is in general dense and requires O(n^2) time to compute and O(n^2) memory space to store. In this paper, we pursue our previous work on the approximate fast graph Fourier transform (FGFT). The FGFT is…
We propose a novel iterative method to adapt a a graph to d-dimensional image data. The method drives the nodes of the graph towards image features. The adaptation process naturally lends itself to a measure of feature saliency which can…
The traditional methods of image assessment, such as mean squared error (MSE), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and Peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), are all based on the absolute error of images. Pearson's inner-product correlation…
We introduce a multi-windowed graph Fourier transform (MWGFT) for the joint vertex-frequency analysis of signals defined on graphs. Building on generalized translation and modulation induced by the graph Laplacian, the proposed framework…
Shift-invariant spaces (SISs) on the real line provide a natural framework for representing, analyzing and processing signals with inherent shift-invariant structure. In this paper, we extend this framework to the finite undirected graph…
Training-free perceptual image codec adopt pre-trained unconditional generative model during decoding to avoid training new conditional generative model. However, they heavily rely on diffusion inversion or sample communication, which take…
The graph fractional Fourier transform (GFRFT) for unitary graph Fourier transform (GFT) matrices can be interpreted through the scalar function $e^{j\alpha\theta}$ on the unit circle. Under the principal branch, its Fourier-series…
Image Representation learning via input reconstruction is a common technique in machine learning for generating representations that can be effectively utilized by arbitrary downstream tasks. A well-established approach is using…
Graph Fourier transform (GFT) is a fundamental concept in graph signal processing. In this paper, based on singular value decomposition of Laplacian, we introduce a novel definition of GFT on directed graphs, and use singular values of…
Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed to achieve the lowest possible distortion at a given bit rate. However, recent studies show that pursuing high perceptual quality would lead to increase of the lowest achievable distortion…
The estimation of grayscale images using their single-bit zero mean Gaussian noise-affected pixels is presented in this paper. The images are assumed to be bandlimited in the Fourier Cosine transform (FCT) domain. The images are oversampled…
Learning transformation invariant representations of visual data is an important problem in computer vision. Deep convolutional networks have demonstrated remarkable results for image and video classification tasks. However, they have…
Recent advancements in neural compression have surpassed traditional codecs in PSNR and MS-SSIM measurements. However, at low bit-rates, these methods can introduce visually displeasing artifacts, such as blurring, color shifting, and…