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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,…

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Deep learning-based image compression has made great progresses recently. However, many leading schemes use serial context-adaptive entropy model to improve the rate-distortion (R-D) performance, which is very slow. In addition, the…

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Current image compression models often require separate models for each quality level, making them resource-intensive in terms of both training and storage. To address these limitations, we propose an innovative approach that utilizes…

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Questing for learned lossy image coding (LIC) with superior compression performance and computation throughput is challenging. The vital factor behind it is how to intelligently explore Adaptive Neighborhood Information Aggregation (ANIA)…

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Benefit from flexible network designs and end-to-end joint optimization approach, learned image compression (LIC) has demonstrated excellent coding performance and practical feasibility in recent years. However, existing compression models…

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Context modeling is essential in learned image compression for accurately estimating the distribution of latents. While recent advanced methods have expanded context modeling capacity, they still struggle to efficiently exploit long-range…

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With the rapid development of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and the growing demand for their applications, efficient compression of the image inputs has become increasingly important. Existing VLMs predominantly digest and understand…

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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…

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Recent state-of-the-art Learned Image Compression methods feature spatial context models, achieving great rate-distortion improvements over hyperprior methods. However, the autoregressive context model requires serial decoding, limiting…

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Recent works on learned image compression perform encoding and decoding processes in a full-resolution manner, resulting in two problems when deployed for practical applications. First, parallel acceleration of the autoregressive entropy…

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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…

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Neural Video Compression has emerged in recent years, with condition-based frameworks outperforming traditional codecs. However, most existing methods rely solely on the previous frame's features to predict temporal context, leading to two…

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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peirong Ning , Wei Jiang , Ronggang Wang

Recent advancements in learned image compression (LIC) methods have demonstrated superior performance over traditional hand-crafted codecs. These learning-based methods often employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hamidreza Soltani , Erfan Ghasemi

Learned image compression (LIC) is currently the cutting-edge method. However, the inherent difference between testing and training images of LIC results in performance degradation to some extent. Especially for out-of-sample,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Honggui Li , Sinan Chen , Dingtai Li , Zhengyang Zhang , Nahid Md Lokman Hossain , Xinfeng Xu , Yinlu Qin , Ruobing Wang , Maria Trocan , Dimitri Galayko , Amara Amara , Mohamad Sawan

Learned Image Compression (LIC) has shown remarkable progress in recent years. Existing works commonly employ CNN-based or self-attention-based modules as transform methods for compression. However, there is no prior research on neural…

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Entropy modeling is a key component for high-performance image compression algorithms. Recent developments in autoregressive context modeling helped learning-based methods to surpass their classical counterparts. However, the performance of…

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