Discard Significant Bits of Compressed Sensing: A Robust Image Coding for Resource-Limited Contexts

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Title: Discard Significant Bits of Compressed Sensing: A Robust Image Coding for Resource-Limited Contexts
Authors: Zan Chen, Tao Wang, Jun Li, Wenlong Guo, Yuanjing Feng, Xueming Qian, Xingsong Hou
Source: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications. 21:1-25
Publisher Information: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Description: Compressed sensing (CS) provides a robust and simple framework for compressing images in resource-constrained environments. However, CS-based image coding schemes often have poor rate-distortion (R-D) performance, particularly due to the quantization process. Our research indicates that leveraging the image prior enables the estimation of most significant bits (MSBs) from least significant bits (LSBs), which provides a quantization strategy to improve R-D performance without increasing coding complexity. That is discarding MSBs of measurements, and only transmitting LSBs to the decoder side. At the decoder side, we reconstruct images by solving an inverse-quantization set-constrained CS optimization problem. Our approach further employs a tailored designed deep denoiser as the proximal operator to enhance the reconstructed image quality. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves satisfactory performance, with promising R-D results (PSNR gains over 1.71 dB than JPEG at 0.50 bpp compression ratio), and robust bit error and loss resilience (reconstructed 29.98 dB even with 50% bit loss at 0.50 bpp compression ratio), meanwhile having lower encoding complexity (less than half encoding time of CCSDS-IDC).
Document Type: Article
Language: English
ISSN: 1551-6865
1551-6857
DOI: 10.1145/3701732
Rights: URL: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background
Accession Number: edsair.doi...........4e3d7910a38ecc517d7866226584a511
Database: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:Compressed sensing (CS) provides a robust and simple framework for compressing images in resource-constrained environments. However, CS-based image coding schemes often have poor rate-distortion (R-D) performance, particularly due to the quantization process. Our research indicates that leveraging the image prior enables the estimation of most significant bits (MSBs) from least significant bits (LSBs), which provides a quantization strategy to improve R-D performance without increasing coding complexity. That is discarding MSBs of measurements, and only transmitting LSBs to the decoder side. At the decoder side, we reconstruct images by solving an inverse-quantization set-constrained CS optimization problem. Our approach further employs a tailored designed deep denoiser as the proximal operator to enhance the reconstructed image quality. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves satisfactory performance, with promising R-D results (PSNR gains over 1.71 dB than JPEG at 0.50 bpp compression ratio), and robust bit error and loss resilience (reconstructed 29.98 dB even with 50% bit loss at 0.50 bpp compression ratio), meanwhile having lower encoding complexity (less than half encoding time of CCSDS-IDC).
ISSN:15516865
15516857
DOI:10.1145/3701732