Disparity-based Stereo Image Compression with Aligned Cross-View Priors

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Main Authors: Zhai, Yongqi, Tang, Luyang, Ma, Yi, Peng, Rui, Wang, Ronggang
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author Zhai, Yongqi
Tang, Luyang
Ma, Yi
Peng, Rui
Wang, Ronggang
author_facet Zhai, Yongqi
Tang, Luyang
Ma, Yi
Peng, Rui
Wang, Ronggang
contents With the wide application of stereo images in various fields, the research on stereo image compression (SIC) attracts extensive attention from academia and industry. The core of SIC is to fully explore the mutual information between the left and right images and reduce redundancy between views as much as possible. In this paper, we propose DispSIC, an end-to-end trainable deep neural network, in which we jointly train a stereo matching model to assist in the image compression task. Based on the stereo matching results (i.e. disparity), the right image can be easily warped to the left view, and only the residuals between the left and right views are encoded for the left image. A three-branch auto-encoder architecture is adopted in DispSIC, which encodes the right image, the disparity map and the residuals respectively. During training, the whole network can learn how to adaptively allocate bitrates to these three parts, achieving better rate-distortion performance at the cost of a lower disparity map bitrates. Moreover, we propose a conditional entropy model with aligned cross-view priors for SIC, which takes the warped latents of the right image as priors to improve the accuracy of the probability estimation for the left image. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves superior performance compared to other existing SIC methods on the KITTI and InStereo2K datasets both quantitatively and qualitatively.
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spellingShingle Disparity-based Stereo Image Compression with Aligned Cross-View Priors
Zhai, Yongqi
Tang, Luyang
Ma, Yi
Peng, Rui
Wang, Ronggang
Multimedia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
With the wide application of stereo images in various fields, the research on stereo image compression (SIC) attracts extensive attention from academia and industry. The core of SIC is to fully explore the mutual information between the left and right images and reduce redundancy between views as much as possible. In this paper, we propose DispSIC, an end-to-end trainable deep neural network, in which we jointly train a stereo matching model to assist in the image compression task. Based on the stereo matching results (i.e. disparity), the right image can be easily warped to the left view, and only the residuals between the left and right views are encoded for the left image. A three-branch auto-encoder architecture is adopted in DispSIC, which encodes the right image, the disparity map and the residuals respectively. During training, the whole network can learn how to adaptively allocate bitrates to these three parts, achieving better rate-distortion performance at the cost of a lower disparity map bitrates. Moreover, we propose a conditional entropy model with aligned cross-view priors for SIC, which takes the warped latents of the right image as priors to improve the accuracy of the probability estimation for the left image. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves superior performance compared to other existing SIC methods on the KITTI and InStereo2K datasets both quantitatively and qualitatively.
title Disparity-based Stereo Image Compression with Aligned Cross-View Priors
topic Multimedia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00459