Image Compression Based on Hybrid Domain Attention and Postprocessing Enhancement

Deep learning-based image compression methods have made significant achievements recently, of which the two key components are the entropy model for latent representations and the encoder-decoder network. Both the inaccurate estimation of the entropy estimation model and the existence of information...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Computational intelligence and neuroscience Vol. 2022; pp. 1 - 12
Main Authors: Bao, Yuting, Tao, Yuwen, Qian, Pengjiang
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Hindawi 17.03.2022
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects:
ISSN:1687-5265, 1687-5273, 1687-5273
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Deep learning-based image compression methods have made significant achievements recently, of which the two key components are the entropy model for latent representations and the encoder-decoder network. Both the inaccurate estimation of the entropy estimation model and the existence of information redundancy in latent representations lead to a reduction in the compression efficiency. To address these issues, the study suggests an image compression method based on a hybrid domain attention mechanism and postprocessing improvement. This study embeds hybrid domain attention modules as nonlinear transformers in both the main encoder-decoder network and the hyperprior network, aiming at constructing more compact latent features and hyperpriors and then model the latent features as parametric Gaussian-scale mixture models to obtain more precise entropy estimation. In addition, we propose a solution to the errors introduced by quantization in image compression by adding an inverse quantization module. On the decoding side, we also provide a postprocessing enhancement module to further increase image compression performance. The experimental results show that the peak signal-to-noise rate (PSNR) and multiscale structural similarity (MS-SSIM) of the proposed method are higher than those of traditional compression methods and advanced neural network-based methods.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
content type line 23
Academic Editor: Xin Ning
ISSN:1687-5265
1687-5273
1687-5273
DOI:10.1155/2022/4926124