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In the past years, learned image compression (LIC) has achieved remarkable performance. The recent LIC methods outperform VVC in both PSNR and MS-SSIM. However, the low bit-rate reconstructions of LIC suffer from artifacts such as blurring,…
Recent advances in learned image compression (LIC) have achieved remarkable performance improvements over traditional codecs. Notably, the MLIC series-LICs equipped with multi-reference entropy models-have substantially surpassed…
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…
A Transformer-based Image Compression (TIC) approach is developed which reuses the canonical variational autoencoder (VAE) architecture with paired main and hyper encoder-decoders. Both main and hyper encoders are comprised of a sequence of…
This paper proposes a novel Non-Local Attention optmization and Improved Context modeling-based image compression (NLAIC) algorithm, which is built on top of the deep nerual network (DNN)-based variational auto-encoder (VAE) structure. Our…
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This short paper describes our method for the track of image compression. To achieve better perceptual quality, we use the adversarial loss to generate realistic textures, use region of interest (ROI) mask to guide the bit allocation for…
Recently, deep learning technology has been successfully applied in the field of image compression, leading to superior rate-distortion performance. It is crucial to design an effective and efficient entropy model to estimate the…
We propose a lossy image compression system using the deep-learning autoencoder structure to participate in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) 2018. Our autoencoder uses the residual blocks with skip connections to reduce the…
Learned image compression (LIC) has reached a comparable coding gain with traditional hand-crafted methods such as VVC intra. However, the large network complexity prohibits the usage of LIC on resource-limited embedded systems. Network…
In recent research, Learned Image Compression has gained prominence for its capacity to outperform traditional handcrafted pipelines, especially at low bit-rates. While existing methods incorporate convolutional priors with occasional…
Current learned image compression models typically exhibit high complexity, which demands significant computational resources. To overcome these challenges, we propose an innovative approach that employs hierarchical feature extraction…
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This document is an expanded version of a one-page abstract originally presented at the 2024 Data Compression Conference. It describes our proposed method for the video track of the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) 2024. Our…