Multiscale Augmented Normalizing Flows for Image Compression

Windsheimer M, Brand F, Kaup A (2024)

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2024

Event location: Seoul KR

ISBN: 979-8-3503-4485-1

URI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10446147

DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446147

Open Access Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05451

Abstract

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 the encoding transform. This issue can be resolved by using invertible latent variable models, which allow a perfect reconstruction if no quantization is performed. Furthermore, many traditional image and video coders apply dynamic block partitioning to vary the compression of certain image regions depending on their content. Inspired by this approach, hierarchical latent spaces have been applied to learning-based compression networks. In this paper, we present a novel concept, which adapts the hierarchical latent space for augmented normalizing flows, an invertible latent variable model. Our best performing model achieved average rate savings of more than 7% over comparable single-scale models.

Authors with CRIS profile

Marc Windsheimer Lehrstuhl für Multimediakommunikation und Signalverarbeitung Fabian Brand Lehrstuhl für Multimediakommunikation und Signalverarbeitung Andre Kaup Lehrstuhl für Multimediakommunikation und Signalverarbeitung

How to cite

APA:

Windsheimer, M., Brand, F., & Kaup, A. (2024). Multiscale Augmented Normalizing Flows for Image Compression. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Seoul, KR.

MLA:

Windsheimer, Marc, Fabian Brand, and André Kaup. "Multiscale Augmented Normalizing Flows for Image Compression." Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul 2024.

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