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Whenever inspected by humans, reconstructed signals should not be distinguished from real ones. Typically, such a high perceptual quality comes at the price of high reconstruction error, and vice versa. We study this distortion-perception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Dror Freirich , Nir Weinberger , Ron Meir

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

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

Rate-distortion optimization (RDO) of codecs, where distortion is quantified by the mean-square error, has been a standard practice in image/video compression over the years. RDO serves well for optimization of codec performance for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Ogun Kirmemis , A. Murat Tekalp

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 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

Blau and Michaeli recently introduced a novel concept for inverse problems of signal processing, that is, the perception-distortion tradeoff. We introduce their tradeoff into the rate distortion theory of lossy source coding in information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

Rate-distortion-perception theory generalizes Shannon's rate-distortion theory by introducing a constraint on the perceptual quality of the output. The perception constraint complements the conventional distortion constraint and aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Jia Wang , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

The lower the distortion of an estimator, the more the distribution of its outputs generally deviates from the distribution of the signals it attempts to estimate. This phenomenon, known as the perception-distortion tradeoff, has captured…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Dror Freirich , Tomer Michaeli , Ron Meir

End-to-end image transmission has recently become a crucial trend in intelligent wireless communications, driven by the increasing demand for high bandwidth efficiency. However, existing methods primarily optimize the trade-off between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Kailin Tan , Jincheng Dai , Zhenyu Liu , Sixian Wang , Xiaoqi Qin , Wenjun Xu , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Signal degradation is ubiquitous and computational restoration of degraded signal has been investigated for many years. Recently, it is reported that the capability of signal restoration is fundamentally limited by the perception-distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Dong Liu , Haochen Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong

This paper investigates applications of nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function (RDF) in a) zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) design based on average and excess distortion probability, b) in bounding the Optimal Performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Photios A. Stavrou , Christos K. Kourtellaris , C. D. Charalambous

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

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, the existence of a trade-off between the rate and the perceptual quality (realism) has been brought to light, where the realism is measured by the closeness of the output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yassine Hamdi , Aaron B. Wagner , Deniz Gündüz

The rate-distortion-perception (RDP) framework has attracted significant recent attention due to its application in neural compression. It is important to understand the underlying mechanism connecting procedures with common randomness and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, existence of a trade-off between the rate and perceptual quality has been brought to light, where the perceptual quality is measured by the closeness of the output and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yassine Hamdi , Aaron B. Wagner , Deniz Gündüz

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

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

In this work, we introduce a new procedure for applying Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to missing data inference tasks, based on linearization of the effective energy function governing the distribution of observations. We compare the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Chris Cannella , Jie Ding , Mohammadreza Soltani , Vahid Tarokh

The distortion-rate function of output-constrained lossy source coding with limited common randomness is analyzed for the special case of squared error distortion measure. An explicit expression is obtained when both source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Li Xie , Liangyan Li , Jun Chen , Zhongshan Zhang