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Variable Rate Deep Image Compression With Modulated Autoencoder

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Fei Yang *
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Luis Herranz
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Joost van de Weijer
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José A. Iglesias-Guitián
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Antonio M. López
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M. G. Mozerov
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2020.2970539delete
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Variable rate is a requirement for flexible and adaptable image and video compression. However, deep image compression methods (DIC) are optimized for a single fixed rate-distortion (R-D) tradeoff. While this can be addressed by training multiple models for different tradeoffs, the memory requirements increase proportionally to the number of models. Scaling the bottleneck representation of a shared autoencoder can provide variable rate compression with a single shared autoencoder. However, the R-D performance using this simple mechanism degrades in low bitrates, and also shrinks the effective range of bitrates. To address these limitations, we formulate the problem of variable R-D optimization for DIC, and propose modulated autoencoders (MAEs), where the representations of a shared autoencoder are adapted to the specific R-D tradeoff via a modulation network. Jointly training this modulated autoencoder and the modulation network provides an effective way to navigate the R-D operational curve. Our experiments show that the proposed method can achieve almost the same R-D performance of independent models with significantly fewer parameters.
Keywords:
Deep image compression
variable bitrate
autoencoder
modulated autoencoder
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IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
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Northwestern Polytechnical University
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Autonomous University of Barcelona
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