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Image compression at extremely low bitrates (below 0.1 bits per pixel (bpp)) is a significant challenge due to substantial information loss. In this work, we propose a novel two-stage extreme image compression framework that exploits the…
Neural image compression methods have seen increasingly strong performance in recent years. However, they suffer orders of magnitude higher computational complexity compared to traditional codecs, which hinders their real-world deployment.…
Recent diffusion-based extreme image compression methods have demonstrated remarkable performance at ultra-low bitrates. However, most approaches require training separate diffusion models for each target bitrate, resulting in substantial…
Raw images preserve linear sensor measurements and high bit-depth information crucial for advanced vision tasks and photography applications, yet their storage remains challenging due to large file sizes, varying bit depths, and…
In this work we propose a novel deep learning approach for ultra-low bitrate video compression for video conferencing applications. To address the shortcomings of current video compression paradigms when the available bandwidth is extremely…
Providing security in the transmission of images and other multimedia data has become one of the most important scientific and practical issues. In this paper, a method for compressing and encryption images is proposed, which can safely…
Even if Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) have proven to be a relevant choice for integrating inference at the edge, they are often limited in terms of applicability. In this paper, we demonstrate that an ASIC neural network…
With the evolution of storage and communication protocols, ultra-low bitrate image compression has become a highly demanding topic. However, existing compression algorithms must sacrifice either consistency with the ground truth or…
Learned image compression (LIC) methods have experienced significant progress during recent years. However, these methods are primarily dedicated to optimizing the rate-distortion (R-D) performance at medium and high bitrates (> 0.1 bits…
Learned image compression (LIC) methods often employ symmetrical encoder and decoder architectures, evitably increasing decoding time. However, practical scenarios demand an asymmetric design, where the decoder requires low complexity to…
Neural image compression, necessary in various machine-to-machine communication scenarios, suffers from its heavy encode-decode structures and inflexibility in switching between different compression levels. Consequently, it raises…
Image compression is a widely used technique to reduce the spatial redundancy in images. Recently, learning based image compression has achieved significant progress by using the powerful representation ability from neural networks.…
Lossy compression algorithms aim to compactly encode images in a way which enables to restore them with minimal error. We show that a key limitation of existing algorithms is that they rely on error measures that are extremely sensitive to…
Compressing images at extremely low bitrates (< 0.1 bpp) has always been a challenging task since the quality of reconstruction significantly reduces due to the strong imposed constraint on the number of bits allocated for the compressed…
We propose a MultiScale AutoEncoder(MSAE) based extreme image compression framework to offer visually pleasing reconstruction at a very low bitrate. Our method leverages the "priors" at different resolution scale to improve the compression…
Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have witnessed great success in performing the compression of image datasets. This success, made possible by the bits-back coding framework, has produced competitive compression performance across many…
This paper explores a new framework for lossy image encryption and decryption using a simple shallow encoder neural network E for encryption, and a complex deep decoder neural network D for decryption. E is kept simple so that encoding can…
While recent neural codecs achieve strong performance at low bitrates when optimized for perceptual quality, their effectiveness deteriorates significantly under ultra-low bitrate conditions. To mitigate this, generative compression methods…
Image codecs are typically optimized to trade-off bitrate \vs distortion metrics. At low bitrates, this leads to compression artefacts which are easily perceptible, even when training with perceptual or adversarial losses. To improve image…
This paper presents a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) based image compression framework via scalable auto-encoder (SAE). Specifically, our SAE based deep image codec consists of hierarchical coding layers, each of which is an…