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Image compression and reconstruction are crucial for various digital applications. While contemporary neural compression methods achieve impressive compression rates, the adoption of such technology has been largely hindered by the…

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We study video reconstruction from ultra-low-bitrate representations, where the primary challenge shifts from encoding to decoding. In this regime, reconstruction with classical and neural codecs introduces blur, while generative and…

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Ultra-low bitrate image compression (below 0.05 bits per pixel) is increasingly critical for bandwidth-constrained and computation-limited encoding scenarios such as edge devices. Existing frameworks typically rely on large pretrained…

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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

Learned progressive image compression is gaining momentum as it allows improved image reconstruction as more bits are decoded at the receiver. We propose a progressive image compression method in which an image is first represented as a…

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We propose a framework for learned image and video compression using the generative sparse visual representation (SVR) guided by fidelity-preserving controls. By embedding inputs into a discrete latent space spanned by learned visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Wei Jiang , Wei Wang

In recent years, the field of learned video compression has witnessed rapid advancement, exemplified by the latest neural video codecs DCVC-DC that has outperformed the upcoming next-generation codec ECM in terms of compression ratio.…

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We propose an end-to-end trainable image compression framework with a multi-scale and context-adaptive entropy model, especially for low bitrate compression. Due to the success of autoregressive priors in probabilistic generative model, the…

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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…

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For neural video codec, it is critical, yet challenging, to design an efficient entropy model which can accurately predict the probability distribution of the quantized latent representation. However, most existing video codecs directly use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yan Lu

The image compression model has long struggled with adaptability and generalization, as the decoded bitstream typically serves only human or machine needs and fails to preserve information for unseen visual tasks. Therefore, this paper…

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We consider the problem of ultra-low bit rate visual communication for remote vision analysis, human interactions and control in challenging scenarios with very low communication bandwidth, such as deep space exploration, battlefield…

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Diffusion-based image compression has recently shown outstanding perceptual fidelity, yet its practicality is hindered by prohibitive sampling overhead and high memory usage. Most existing diffusion codecs employ U-Net architectures, where…

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Learned image compression has achieved competitive rate-distortion performance, but very-low-bitrate reconstruction remains difficult because the transmitted representation often cannot preserve fine textures and local structures.…

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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…

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Prevalent lossy image compression schemes can be divided into: 1) explicit image compression (EIC), including traditional standards and neural end-to-end algorithms; 2) implicit image compression (IIC) based on implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qi Zheng , Haozhi Wang , Zihao Liu , Jiaming Liu , Peiye Liu , Zhijian Hao , Yanheng Lu , Dimin Niu , Jinjia Zhou , Minge Jing , Yibo Fan

In the fourth generation Audio Video coding Standard (AVS4), the Inter Prediction Filter (INTERPF) reduces discontinuities between prediction and adjacent reconstructed pixels in inter prediction. The paper proposes a low complexity…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yanchen Zhao , Wenhong Duan , Chuanmin Jia , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma

Training-free perceptual image codec adopt pre-trained unconditional generative model during decoding to avoid training new conditional generative model. However, they heavily rely on diffusion inversion or sample communication, which take…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Ziran Zhu , Tongda Xu , Minye Huang , Dailan He , Xingtong Ge , Xinjie Zhang , Ling Li , Yan Wang

We introduce EGIC, an enhanced generative image compression method that allows traversing the distortion-perception curve efficiently from a single model. EGIC is based on two novel building blocks: i) OASIS-C, a conditional pre-trained…

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