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Existing diffusion codecs typically build on text-to-image diffusion foundation models like Stable Diffusion. However, text conditioning is suboptimal from a compression perspective, hindering the potential of downstream diffusion codecs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhaoyang Jia , Zihan Zheng , Naifu Xue , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Zongyu Guo , Xiaoyi Zhang , Houqiang Li , Yan Lu

Modern visual generative models acquire rich visual knowledge through large-scale training, yet existing visual representations (such as pixels, latents, or tokens) remain external to the model and cannot directly exploit this knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zongyu Guo , Jiajun He , Zhaoyang Jia , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jiahao Li , Xiao Li , Bin Li , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Yan Lu

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) are large-scale, pre-trained models that serve as general-purpose backbones for various computer vision tasks. As VFMs' popularity grows, there is an increasing interest in understanding their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Volodymyr Havrylov , Haiwen Huang , Dan Zhang , Andreas Geiger

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

There has been a growing trend in compressing and transmitting videos from terminals for machine vision tasks. Nevertheless, most video coding optimization method focus on minimizing distortion according to human perceptual metrics,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Fei Zhao , Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Xiaodong Xie

Purpose: To investigate whether a vision-language foundation model can enhance undersampled MRI reconstruction by providing high-level contextual information beyond conventional priors. Methods: We proposed a semantic distribution-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruimin Feng , Xingxin He , Ronald Mercer , Zachary Stewart , Fang Liu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Meng Li , Yibo Shi , Jing Wang , Yunqi Huang

A large fraction of Internet traffic is now driven by requests from mobile devices with relatively small screens and often stringent bandwidth requirements. Due to these factors, it has become the norm for modern graphics-heavy websites to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-03 George Toderici , Sean M. O'Malley , Sung Jin Hwang , Damien Vincent , David Minnen , Shumeet Baluja , Michele Covell , Rahul Sukthankar

Video coding, which targets to compress and reconstruct the whole frame, and feature compression, which only preserves and transmits the most critical information, stand at two ends of the scale. That is, one is with compactness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ling-Yu Duan , Jiaying Liu , Wenhan Yang , Tiejun Huang , Wen Gao

Cloud segmentation is a critical challenge in remote sensing image interpretation, as its accuracy directly impacts the effectiveness of subsequent data processing and analysis. Recently, vision foundation models (VFM) have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuechao Zou , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Junliang Xing , Lei Jin , Congyan Lang , Pin Tao

Learned image compression codecs have recently achieved impressive compression performances surpassing the most efficient image coding architectures. However, most approaches are trained to minimize rate and distortion which often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Daniele Mari , Simone Milani

This paper outlines an end-to-end optimized lossy image compression framework using diffusion generative models. The approach relies on the transform coding paradigm, where an image is mapped into a latent space for entropy coding and, from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Ruihan Yang , Stephan Mandt

Reducing the data footprint of visual content via image compression is essential to reduce storage requirements, but also to reduce the bandwidth and latency requirements for transmission. In particular, the use of compressed images allows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 João Maria Janeiro , Stanislav Frolov , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek

Vision foundation models (VFMs) such as DINOv2 and CLIP have achieved impressive results on various downstream tasks, but their limited feature resolution hampers performance in applications requiring pixel-level understanding. Feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Haiwen Huang , Anpei Chen , Volodymyr Havrylov , Andreas Geiger , Dan Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zifu Zhang , Tongda Xu , Siqi Li , Shengxi Li , Yue Zhang , Mai Xu , Yan Wang

The usage of deep generative models for image compression has led to impressive performance gains over classical codecs while neural video compression is still in its infancy. Here, we propose an end-to-end, deep generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jun Han , Salvator Lombardo , Christopher Schroers , Stephan Mandt

Although deep learning based image compression methods have achieved promising progress these days, the performance of these methods still cannot match the latest compression standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC). Most of the recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yueqi Xie , Ka Leong Cheng , Qifeng Chen

Coding images for machines with minimal bitrate and strong analysis performance is key to effective edge-cloud systems. Several approaches deploy an image codec and perform analysis on the reconstructed image. Other methods compress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinyu Wang , Zikun Zhou , Yingjian Li , Xin An , Hongpeng Wang

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) have made remarkable progress on various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However, most methods rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Zhihang Zhong , Xue Yang

Being trained on large and diverse datasets, visual foundation models (VFMs) can be fine-tuned to achieve remarkable performance and efficiency in various downstream computer vision tasks. The high computational cost of data collection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Anna Chistyakova , Mikhail Pautov