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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Daxin Li , Yuanchao Bai , Kai Wang , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

Deep learning-based image compression algorithms typically focus on designing encoding and decoding networks and improving the accuracy of entropy model estimation to enhance the rate-distortion (RD) performance. However, few algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Junhui Li , Jutao Li , Xingsong Hou , Huake Wang

Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Richeng Jin , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

While traditional and neural video codecs (NVCs) have achieved remarkable rate-distortion performance, improving perceptual quality at low bitrates remains challenging. Some NVCs incorporate perceptual or adversarial objectives but still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Naifu Xue , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Zihan Zheng , Yuan Zhang , Yan Lu

The learned image compression (LIC) methods have already surpassed traditional techniques in compressing natural scene (NS) images. However, directly applying these methods to screen content (SC) images, which possess distinct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Shiqi Jiang , Hui Yuan , Shuai Li , Huanqiang Zeng , Sam Kwong

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

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

Hyperspectral image change detection (HSI-CD) has emerged as a crucial research area in remote sensing due to its ability to detect subtle changes on the earth's surface. Recently, diffusional denoising probabilistic models (DDPM) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiangrong Zhang , Shunli Tian , Guanchun Wang , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has been demonstrated to be an effective approach for wireless image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing work adopts an autoencoder framework to optimize conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Mingyu Yang , Bowen Liu , Boyang Wang , Hun-Seok Kim

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have demonstrated remarkable performance. Recent advancements have introduced deterministic sampling processes that reduce inference from 15 iterative steps to a single step, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zihang Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang

It remains a significant challenge to compress images at extremely low bitrate while achieving both semantic consistency and high perceptual quality. Inspired by human progressive perception mechanism, we propose a Semantically Disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Juan Song , Lijie Yang , Mingtao Feng

Diffusion-based image compression has shown remarkable potential for achieving ultra-low bitrate coding (less than 0.05 bits per pixel) with high realism, by leveraging the generative priors of large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Tianyu Zhang , Xin Luo , Li Li , Dong Liu

Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high resolution images with both high perceptual quality and low distortion, but is fundamentally limited by the perception-distortion trade-off. GAN-based SR methods reduce distortion but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dan Wang , Haiyan Sun , Shan Du , Z. Jane Wang , Zhaochong An , Serge Belongie , Xinrui Cui

Distributed Image Compression (DIC) is crucial for multi-view transmission, especially when operating at extremely low bitrates (< 0.1 bpp). Its core challenge is effectively utilizing side information to achieve high-quality reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Guojun Xu , Mingyang Zhang , Jianwen Xiang , Cheng Tan , Yanchao Yang , Junwei Zhou

Real-world image super-resolution is particularly challenging for diffusion models because real degradations are complex, heterogeneous, and rarely modeled explicitly. We propose a degradation-aware and structure-preserving diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yang Ji , Zonghao Chen , Zhihao Xue , Junqin Hu

We propose a simple yet effective model for Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR), by combining the merits of Residual Learning and Convolutional Sparse Coding (RL-CSC). Our model is inspired by the Learned Iterative Shrinkage-Threshold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Menglei Zhang , Zhou Liu , Lei Yu

Despite significant advancements in deep learning based CSI compression, some key limitations remain unaddressed. Current approaches predominantly treat CSI compression as a source-coding problem, thereby neglecting transmission errors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , Heasung Kim , Joonyoung Cho , Hyeji Kim

Diffusion-based semantic communication methods have shown significant advantages in image transmission by harnessing the generative power of diffusion models. However, they still face challenges, including generation randomness that leads…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang

Remote-sensing (RS) image compression at extremely low bitrates has always been a challenging task in practical scenarios like edge device storage and narrow bandwidth transmission. Generative models including VAEs and GANs have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yixuan Ye , Ce Wang , Wanjie Sun , Zhenzhong Chen