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Wen-Hsiao Peng

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arXiv2019

Learned Image Compression with Soft Bit-based Rate-Distortion Optimization

This paper introduces the notion of soft bits to address the rate-distortion optimization for learning-based image compression. Recent methods for such compression train an autoencoder end-to-end with an objective to strike a balance between distortion and rate. They are faced with the zero gradient issue due to quantization and the difficulty of estimating the rate accurately. Inspired by soft quantization, we represent quantization indices of feature maps with differentiable soft bits. This allows us to couple tightly the rate estimation with context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding. It also provides a differentiable distortion objective function. Experimental results show that our approach achieves the state-of-the-art compression performance among the learning-based schemes in terms of MS-SSIM and PSNR.

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arXiv2019

All about Structure: Adapting Structural Information across Domains for Boosting Semantic Segmentation

In this paper we tackle the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for the task of semantic segmentation, where we attempt to transfer the knowledge learned upon synthetic datasets with ground-truth labels to real-world images without any annotation. With the hypothesis that the structural content of images is the most informative and decisive factor to semantic segmentation and can be readily shared across domains, we propose a Domain Invariant Structure Extraction (DISE) framework to disentangle images into domain-invariant structure and domain-specific texture representations, which can further realize image-translation across domains and enable label transfer to improve segmentation performance. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of our proposed DISE model and demonstrate its superiority over several state-of-the-art approaches.

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arXiv2019

An Autoencoder-based Learned Image Compressor: Description of Challenge Proposal by NCTU

We propose a lossy image compression system using the deep-learning autoencoder structure to participate in the Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) 2018. Our autoencoder uses the residual blocks with skip connections to reduce the correlation among image pixels and condense the input image into a set of feature maps, a compact representation of the original image. The bit allocation and bitrate control are implemented by using the importance maps and quantizer. The importance maps are generated by a separate neural net in the encoder. The autoencoder and the importance net are trained jointly based on minimizing a weighted sum of mean squared error, MS-SSIM, and a rate estimate. Our aim is to produce reconstructed images with good subjective quality subject to the 0.15 bits-per-pixel constraint.

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