Block-Optimized Variable Bit Rate Neural Image Compression
Abstract
In this work, we propose an end-to-end block-based auto-encoder system for image compression. We introduce novel contributions to neural-network based image compression, mainly in achieving binarization simulation, variable bit rates with multiple networks, entropyfriendly representations, inference-stage code optimization and performance-improving normalization layers in the auto-encoder. We evaluate and show the incremental performance increase of each of our contributions.
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Text
Aytekin et al. "Block-Optimized Variable Bit Rate Neural Image Compression." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2018.Markdown
[Aytekin et al. "Block-Optimized Variable Bit Rate Neural Image Compression." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2018/aytekin2018cvprw-blockoptimized/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{aytekin2018cvprw-blockoptimized,
title = {{Block-Optimized Variable Bit Rate Neural Image Compression}},
author = {Aytekin, Çaglar and Ni, Xingyang and Cricri, Francesco and Lainema, Jani and Aksu, Emre and Hannuksela, Miska M.},
booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
year = {2018},
pages = {2551-2554},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2018/aytekin2018cvprw-blockoptimized/}
}