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In recent years, learned image compression (LIC) methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, obtaining a more compact latent representation and reducing the impact of quantization errors remain key challenges in the…

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Visual generative models based on latent space have achieved great success, underscoring the significance of visual tokenization. Mapping images to latents boosts efficiency and enables multimodal alignment for scaling up in downstream…

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Audio-visual speech separation aims to isolate each speaker's clean voice from mixtures by leveraging visual cues such as lip movements and facial features. While visual information provides complementary semantic guidance, existing methods…

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Contrastively trained vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in vision and language representation learning, leading to state-of-the-art models for various downstream multimodal tasks. However, recent research has…

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Most learning-based image compression methods lack efficiency for high image quality due to their non-invertible design. The decoding function of the frequently applied compressive autoencoder architecture is only an approximated inverse of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Marc Windsheimer , Fabian Brand , André Kaup

A plethora of recent research has focused on improving the memory footprint and inference speed of deep networks by reducing the complexity of (i) numerical representations (for example, by deterministic or stochastic quantization) and (ii)…

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In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical Learned Video Compression (HLVC) method with three hierarchical quality layers and a recurrent enhancement network. The frames in the first layer are compressed by an image compression method with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Ren Yang , Fabian Mentzer , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using Class Activation Maps (CAMs). Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been introduced in WSSS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhiwei Yang , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Feilong Tang , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

In recent years, compressed domain semantic inference has primarily relied on learned image coding models optimized for mean squared error (MSE). However, MSE-oriented optimization tends to yield latent spaces with limited semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xu Zhang , Ming Lu , Yan Chen , Zhan Ma

Learned image compression (LIC) has shown great promise for achieving high rate-distortion performance. However, current LIC methods are often limited in their capability to model the complex correlation structures inherent in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhineng Zhao , Zhihai He , Zikun Zhou , Siwei Ma , Yaowei Wang

Learned Image Compression (LIC) has shown remarkable progress in recent years. Existing works commonly employ CNN-based or self-attention-based modules as transform methods for compression. However, there is no prior research on neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxi Liu , Wenhan Yang , Huihui Bai , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Explaining the prediction of deep neural networks (DNNs) and semantic image compression are two active research areas of deep learning with a numerous of applications in decision-critical systems, such as surveillance cameras, drones and…

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Autoregressive models have shown remarkable success in image generation by adapting sequential prediction techniques from language modeling. However, applying these approaches to images requires discretizing continuous pixel data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ziyao Guo , Kaipeng Zhang , Michael Qizhe Shieh

Traditional human vision-centric image compression methods are suboptimal for machine vision centric compression due to different visual properties and feature characteristics. To address this problem, we propose a Channel Importance-driven…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yun Zhang , Junle Liu , Huan Zhang , Zhaoqing Pan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

Finetuning a pretrained backbone in the encoder part of an image transformer network has been the traditional approach for the semantic segmentation task. However, such an approach leaves out the semantic context that an image provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jitesh Jain , Anukriti Singh , Nikita Orlov , Zilong Huang , Jiachen Li , Steven Walton , Humphrey Shi

Recent advances in text-to-image generative models provide the ability to generate high-quality images from short text descriptions. These foundation models, when pre-trained on billion-scale datasets, are effective for various downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Eric Lei , Yiğit Berkay Uslu , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Deep learning based image compression has recently witnessed exciting progress and in some cases even managed to surpass transform coding based approaches that have been established and refined over many decades. However, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Leonhard Helminger , Abdelaziz Djelouah , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

While existing speech audio codecs designed for compression exploit limited forms of temporal redundancy and allow for multi-scale representations, they tend to represent all features of audio in the same way. In contrast, generative voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ryan Collette , Ross Greenwood , Serena Nicoll

Recently, the bio-inspired spike camera with continuous motion recording capability has attracted tremendous attention due to its ultra high temporal resolution imaging characteristic. Such imaging feature results in huge data storage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Kexiang Feng , Chuanmin Jia , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

In this paper we deal with image classification tasks using the powerful CLIP vision-language model. Our goal is to advance the classification performance using the CLIP's image encoder, by proposing a novel Large Multimodal Model (LMM)…

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