Semantic-oriented learning-based image compression by Only-Train-Once quantized autoencoders

Accessibility to big training datasets together with current advances in computing power has emerged interest in the leverage of deep learning to address image compression. This needs to train and deploy separate networks for rate adaptation, which is impractical and extensive in terms of memory cos...

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Published in:Signal, image and video processing Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 285 - 293
Main Authors: Sebai, D., Shah, A. Ulah
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 01.02.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Adaptation
Codec
Computer Imaging
Computer Science
Datasets
Deep learning
Image coding
Image compression
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Image quality
Lagrange multiplier
Machine learning
Methods
Multimedia Information Systems
Neural networks
Original Paper
Pattern Recognition and Graphics
Semantic analysis
Semantics
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Vision
Learning-based image compression
Loss-conditional autoencoder
Variable-rate compression
Multi-term loss function
Quantized autoencoders
Only-Train-Once
ISSN:1863-1703, 1863-1711
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Summary:Accessibility to big training datasets together with current advances in computing power has emerged interest in the leverage of deep learning to address image compression. This needs to train and deploy separate networks for rate adaptation, which is impractical and extensive in terms of memory cost and power consumption, especially for broad bitrate ranges. To deal with such limitation, the variable-rate compression methods use the Lagrange multiplier to control the Rate/Distortion trade-offs in order not to require retraining of the neural network for each rate. However, they do not make an optimized bit allocation for the eye-catching foreground details, and do not consider the different degree of attention that the human eye has to each area of the image. Thus, other deep learning-based image compression approaches, which could outperform the above ones, are replied on the use of additional information. In this paper, we present a loss-conditional autoencoder tailored to the specific task of semantic image understanding to achieve higher visual quality in lossy variable-rate compression. Our framework is a neural network-based scheme able to automatically optimize coding parameters with multi-term perceptual loss function based on semantic-important structural SIMilarity index. To ensure the rate adaptation, we suggest modulating the compression network on the bitwidth of its activations by quantizing them according to several bitwidth values. Experiments are presented on the JPEG AI dataset in which our method achieves competitive and higher visual quality for the same compressed size, when compared to conventional codecs and related work.
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ISSN:1863-1703
1863-1711
DOI:10.1007/s11760-022-02231-1