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In this paper, we consider the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-off for the lossy compression of a Bernoulli vector source, which is a finite collection of independent binary random variables. The RDP function quantifies in a way the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

In lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced the information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function, extending traditional rate-distortion theory by incorporating perceptual quality. More recently, this framework was expanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

The information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function characterizes the three-way trade-off between description rate, average distortion, and perceptual quality measured by discrepancy between probability distributions and has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chunhui Chen , Xueyan Niu , Wenhao Ye , Hao Wu , Bo Bai

The rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF; Blau and Michaeli, 2019) has emerged as a useful tool for thinking about realism and distortion of reconstructions in lossy compression. Unlike the rate-distortion function, however, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Lucas Theis , Aaron B. Wagner

We introduce a R\'enyi Rate-Distortion-Perception-Privacy (R-RDPP) framework for indirect source coding. A latent source~$S$ is correlated with a private attribute~$U$, and the encoder observes only a noisy view~$X$ such that $(S,U) - X -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahui Wei , Marios Kountouris

The nascent field of Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory is seeing a surge of research interest due to the application of machine learning techniques in the area of lossy compression. The information RDP function characterizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Chunhui Chen , Xueyan Niu , Wenhao Ye , Shitong Wu , Bo Bai , Weichao Chen , Sian-Jheng Lin

Recent advances in Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory highlight the importance of balancing compression level, reconstruction quality, and perceptual fidelity. While previous work has explored numerical approaches to approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chunhui Chen , Linyi Chen , Xueyan Niu , Hao Wu

In the context of lossy compression, Blau & Michaeli (2019) adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the classical rate-distortion tradeoff. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 George Zhang , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

Rate-distortion-perception theory generalizes Shannon's rate-distortion theory by introducing a constraint on the perceptual quality of the output. The perception constraint complements the conventional distortion constraint and aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Jia Wang , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

This paper studies the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff for a memoryless source model in the asymptotic limit of large block-lengths. The perception measure is based on a divergence between the distributions of the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti , Wei Yu

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

The problem of estimating the information rate distortion perception function (RDPF), which is a relevant information-theoretic quantity in goal-oriented lossy compression and semantic information reconstruction, is investigated here.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Martha V. Sourla , Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, we investigate the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) of a source modeled by a Gaussian Process (GP) on a measure space $\Omega$ under mean squared error (MSE) distortion and squared Wasserstein-2 perception metrics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff characterizes the fundamental limits of lossy compression by jointly considering bitrate, reconstruction fidelity, and perceptual quality. While recent neural compression methods have improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuhan Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

A rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff has recently been proposed by Blau and Michaeli and also Matsumoto. Focusing on the case of perfect realism, which coincides with the problem of distribution-preserving lossy compression studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Aaron B. Wagner

In lossy compression, the classical tradeoff between compression rate and reconstruction distortion has traditionally guided algorithm design. However, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced a generalized framework, known as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Nam Nguyen

The fundamental limit of natural signal compression has traditionally been characterized by classical rate-distortion (RD) theory through the tradeoff between coding rate and reconstruction distortion, while the rate-distortion-perception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zijian Liang , Kai Niu , Changshuo Wang , Jin Xu , Ping Zhang

In this paper, we study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for discrete memoryless sources subject to a single-letter average distortion constraint and a perception constraint that belongs to the family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

We propose a new family of regularized R\'enyi divergences parametrized not only by the order $\alpha$ but also by a variational function space. These new objects are defined by taking the infimal convolution of the standard R\'enyi…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-16 Jeremiah Birrell , Yannis Pantazis , Paul Dupuis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet

Recent advances in machine learning-aided lossy compression are incorporating perceptual fidelity into the rate-distortion theory. In this paper, we study the rate-distortion-perception trade-off when the perceptual quality is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xueyan Niu , Deniz Gündüz , Bo Bai , Wei Han
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