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We study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for discrete memoryless sources subject to a single-letter average distortion constraint and a perception constraint belonging to the family of $f$-divergences. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

Recent advances in Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory highlight the importance of balancing compression level, reconstruction quality, and perceptual fidelity. While previous work has explored numerical approaches to approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chunhui Chen , Linyi Chen , Xueyan Niu , Hao Wu

The rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF; Blau and Michaeli, 2019) has emerged as a useful tool for thinking about realism and distortion of reconstructions in lossy compression. Unlike the rate-distortion function, however, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Lucas Theis , Aaron B. Wagner

In this paper, we study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for a multivariate Gaussian source under mean squared error (MSE) distortion and, respectively, Kullback-Leibler divergence, geometric Jensen-Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The problem of estimating the information rate distortion perception function (RDPF), which is a relevant information-theoretic quantity in goal-oriented lossy compression and semantic information reconstruction, is investigated here.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Martha V. Sourla , Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

We present a new method to estimate the rate-distortion-perception function in the perfect realism regime (PR-RDPF), for multivariate continuous sources subject to a single-letter average distortion constraint. The proposed approach is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, we investigate the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) of a source modeled by a Gaussian Process (GP) on a measure space $\Omega$ under mean squared error (MSE) distortion and squared Wasserstein-2 perception metrics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

This paper studies the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff for a memoryless source model in the asymptotic limit of large block-lengths. The perception measure is based on a divergence between the distributions of the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti , Wei Yu

The rate-distortion function (RDF) has long been an information-theoretic benchmark for data compression. As its natural extension, the indirect rate-distortion function (iRDF) corresponds to the scenario where the encoder can only access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zichao Yu , Qiang Sun , Wenyi Zhang

We consider a remote source coding problem subject to a {distortion function}. Contrary to the use of the classical separable distortion criterion, herein we consider the more general, $f$-separable distortion measure and study its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Photios A. Stavrou , Yanina Shkel , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, we consider the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-off for the lossy compression of a Bernoulli vector source, which is a finite collection of independent binary random variables. The RDP function quantifies in a way the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Chunhui Chen , Xueyan Niu , Wenhao Ye , Shitong Wu , Bo Bai , Weichao Chen , Sian-Jheng Lin

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

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

This paper deals with the computation of a non-asymptotic lower bound by means of the nonanticipative rate-distortion function (NRDF) on the discrete-time zero-delay variable-rate lossy compression problem for discrete Markov sources with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zixuan He , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

In this paper we invoke a nonanticipative information Rate Distortion Function (RDF) for sources with memory, and we analyze its importance in probabilistic matching of the source to the channel so that transmission of a symbol-by-symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christos Kourtellaris , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

We extend the Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) framework to the R\'enyi information-theoretic regime, utilizing Sibson's $\alpha$-mutual information to characterize the fundamental limits under distortion and perception constraints. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahui Wei , Marios Kountouris

The rate-distortion (RD) theory is one of the key concepts in information theory, providing theoretical limits for compression performance and guiding the source coding design, with both theoretical and practical significance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Shitong Wu , Sicheng Xu , Lingyi Chen , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang

The rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff characterizes the fundamental limits of lossy compression by jointly considering bitrate, reconstruction fidelity, and perceptual quality. While recent neural compression methods have improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuhan Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In this paper we analyze the joint rate distortion function (RDF), for a tuple of correlated sources taking values in abstract alphabet spaces (i.e., continuous) subject to two individual distortion criteria. First, we derive structural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Evagoras Stylianou , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous
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