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Implicit Neural Networks (INRs) have emerged as powerful representations to encode all forms of data, including images, videos, audios, and scenes. With video, many INRs for video have been proposed for the compression task, and recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shishira R Maiya , Anubhav Gupta , Matthew Gwilliam , Max Ehrlich , Abhinav Shrivastava

The pursuit of higher compression efficiency continuously drives the advances of video coding technologies. Fundamentally, we wish to find better "predictions" or "priors" that are reconstructed previously to remove the signal dependency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-22 Haojie Liu , Tong Chen , Ming Lu , Qiu Shen , Zhan Ma

Learned image compression (LIC) has shown great promise for achieving high rate-distortion performance. However, current LIC methods are often limited in their capability to model the complex correlation structures inherent in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhineng Zhao , Zhihai He , Zikun Zhou , Siwei Ma , Yaowei Wang

While learned image compression (LIC) focuses on efficient data transmission, generative image compression (GIC) extends this framework by integrating generative modeling to produce photo-realistic reconstructed images. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Jinhua Zhang , Leheng Zhang , Ce Zhu , Shuhang Gu

Implicit Neural representations (INRs) have emerged as a promising approach for video compression, and have achieved comparable performance to the state-of-the-art codecs such as H.266/VVC. However, existing INR-based methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jun Zhu , Xinfeng Zhang , Lv Tang , JunHao Jiang

Autoencoding has achieved great empirical success as a framework for learning generative models for natural images. Autoencoders often use generic deep networks as the encoder or decoder, which are difficult to interpret, and the learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xili Dai , Ke Chen , Shengbang Tong , Jingyuan Zhang , Xingjian Gao , Mingyang Li , Druv Pai , Yuexiang Zhai , XIaojun Yuan , Heung-Yeung Shum , Lionel M. Ni , Yi Ma

Recent work has shown that learned image compression strategies can outperform standard hand-crafted compression algorithms that have been developed over decades of intensive research on the rate-distortion trade-off. With growing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Felipe Codevilla , Jean Gabriel Simard , Ross Goroshin , Chris Pal

Deep learning is overwhelmingly dominant in the field of computer vision and image/video processing for the last decade. However, for image and video compression, it lags behind the traditional techniques based on discrete cosine transform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli , Emre Aksu , Miska M. Hannuksela

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

The past few years have witnessed increasing interests in applying deep learning to video compression. However, the existing approaches compress a video frame with only a few number of reference frames, which limits their ability to fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Ren Yang , Fabian Mentzer , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Neural fields, also known as implicit neural representations (INRs), have shown a remarkable capability of representing, generating, and manipulating various data types, allowing for continuous data reconstruction at a low memory footprint.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Ahmed Ghorbel , Wassim Hamidouche , Luce Morin

Video compression is widely used in digital television, surveillance systems, and virtual reality. Real-time video decoding is crucial in practical scenarios. Recently, neural video compression (NVC) combines traditional coding with deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Siyu Zhang , Wendong Mao , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang

Neural Representations for Videos (NeRV) encode entire video sequences within neural network parameters, offering an alternative paradigm to conventional video codecs. However, the convolutional decoder of NeRV remains computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Tamer Shanableh

Compression plays an important role on the efficient transmission and storage of images and videos through band-limited systems such as streaming services, virtual reality or videogames. However, compression unavoidably leads to artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Marcos V. Conde , Ui-Jin Choi , Maxime Burchi , Radu Timofte

We introduce a stop-code tolerant (SCT) approach to training recurrent convolutional neural networks for lossy image compression. Our methods introduce a multi-pass training method to combine the training goals of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Michele Covell , Nick Johnston , David Minnen , Sung Jin Hwang , Joel Shor , Saurabh Singh , Damien Vincent , George Toderici

We propose in this paper a new paradigm for facial video compression. We leverage the generative capacity of GANs such as StyleGAN to represent and compress a video, including intra and inter compression. Each frame is inverted in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Mustafa Shukor , Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Xu Yao , Pierre Hellier

In this paper, a convolutional sparse coding method based on global structure characteristics and spectral correlation is proposed for the reconstruction of compressive spectral images. The spectral data is regarded as the convolution sum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Pan Wang , Jie Li , Jieru Chen , Lin Wang , Chun Qi

Neural representation for video (NeRV), which employs a neural network to parameterize video signals, introduces a novel methodology in video representations. However, existing NeRV-based methods have difficulty in capturing fine spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Jina Kim , Jihoo Lee , Je-Won Kang

Recent advances in generative compression methods have demonstrated remarkable progress in enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed data, especially in scenarios with low bitrates. However, their efficacy and applicability to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Qi Mao , Tinghan Yang , Yinuo Zhang , Zijian Wang , Meng Wang , Shiqi Wang , Siwei Ma

Recently it has been shown that deep learning-based image compression has shown the potential to outperform traditional codecs. However, most existing methods train multiple networks for multiple bit rates, which increases the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Mohammad Akbari , Jie Liang , Jingning Han , Chengjie Tu