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In perceptual image coding applications, the main objective is to decrease, as much as possible, Bits Per Pixel (BPP) while avoiding noticeable distortions in the reconstructed image. In this paper, we propose a novel perceptual image…
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…
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…
In recent years, there has been rapid development in learned image compression techniques that prioritize ratedistortion-perceptual compression, preserving fine details even at lower bit-rates. However, current learning-based image…
Over recent years, deep learning-based computer vision systems have been applied to images at an ever-increasing pace, oftentimes representing the only type of consumption for those images. Given the dramatic explosion in the number of…
As an increasing amount of image and video content will be analyzed by machines, there is demand for a new codec paradigm that is capable of compressing visual input primarily for the purpose of computer vision inference, while secondarily…
With the growing demand for video applications, many advanced learned video compression methods have been developed, outperforming traditional methods in terms of objective quality metrics such as PSNR. Existing methods primarily focus on…
Significant improvement has been made on just noticeable difference (JND) modelling due to the development of deep neural networks, especially for the recently developed unsupervised-JND generation models. However, they have a major…
We present a lossy image compression method based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which outperforms the existing BPG, WebP, JPEG2000 and JPEG as measured via multi-scale structural similarity (MS-SSIM), at the same bit rate.…
Recent advancements in deep learning-based image compression are notable. However, prevalent schemes that employ a serial context-adaptive entropy model to enhance rate-distortion (R-D) performance are markedly slow. Furthermore, the…
This paper summarises the design of the candidate ED for the Challenge on Learned Image Compression 2024. This candidate aims at providing an anchor based on conventional coding technologies to the learning-based approaches mostly targeted…
In this paper, we present an end-to-end video compression network for P-frame challenge on CLIC. We focus on deep neural network (DNN) based video compression, and improve the current frameworks from three aspects. First, we notice that…
In learning-based approaches to image compression, codecs are developed by optimizing a computational model to minimize a rate-distortion objective. Currently, the most effective learned image codecs take the form of an entropy-constrained…
The end-to-end learning-based video compression has attracted substantial attentions by paving another way to compress video signals as stacked visual features. This paper proposes an efficient end-to-end deep video codec with jointly…
Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…
An increasing share of image and video content is analyzed by machines rather than viewed by humans, and therefore it becomes relevant to optimize codecs for such applications where the analysis is performed remotely. Unfortunately,…
Among applications of deep learning (DL) involving low cost sensors, remote image classification involves a physical channel that separates edge sensors and cloud classifiers. Traditional DL models must be divided between an encoder for the…
Learned image compression has recently shown the potential to outperform the standard codecs. State-of-the-art rate-distortion (R-D) performance has been achieved by context-adaptive entropy coding approaches in which hyperprior and…
This paper introduces a novel framework for end-to-end learned video coding. Image compression is generalized through conditional coding to exploit information from reference frames, allowing to process intra and inter frames with the same…
To provide users with more realistic visual experiences, videos are developing in the trends of Ultra High Definition (UHD), High Frame Rate (HFR), High Dynamic Range (HDR), Wide Color Gammut (WCG) and high clarity. However, the data amount…