Joint End-to-End Image Compression and Denoising: Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Multi-Scale Self-ONNs

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Main Authors: Xie, Yuxin, Yu, Li, Pakdaman, Farhad, Gabbouj, Moncef
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Published: 2024
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author Xie, Yuxin
Yu, Li
Pakdaman, Farhad
Gabbouj, Moncef
author_facet Xie, Yuxin
Yu, Li
Pakdaman, Farhad
Gabbouj, Moncef
contents Noisy images are a challenge to image compression algorithms due to the inherent difficulty of compressing noise. As noise cannot easily be discerned from image details, such as high-frequency signals, its presence leads to extra bits needed for compression. Since the emerging learned image compression paradigm enables end-to-end optimization of codecs, recent efforts were made to integrate denoising into the compression model, relying on clean image features to guide denoising. However, these methods exhibit suboptimal performance under high noise levels, lacking the capability to generalize across diverse noise types. In this paper, we propose a novel method integrating a multi-scale denoiser comprising of Self Organizing Operational Neural Networks, for joint image compression and denoising. We employ contrastive learning to boost the network ability to differentiate noise from high frequency signal components, by emphasizing the correlation between noisy and clean counterparts. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method both in rate-distortion performance, and codec speed, outperforming the current state-of-the-art.
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spellingShingle Joint End-to-End Image Compression and Denoising: Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Multi-Scale Self-ONNs
Xie, Yuxin
Yu, Li
Pakdaman, Farhad
Gabbouj, Moncef
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Noisy images are a challenge to image compression algorithms due to the inherent difficulty of compressing noise. As noise cannot easily be discerned from image details, such as high-frequency signals, its presence leads to extra bits needed for compression. Since the emerging learned image compression paradigm enables end-to-end optimization of codecs, recent efforts were made to integrate denoising into the compression model, relying on clean image features to guide denoising. However, these methods exhibit suboptimal performance under high noise levels, lacking the capability to generalize across diverse noise types. In this paper, we propose a novel method integrating a multi-scale denoiser comprising of Self Organizing Operational Neural Networks, for joint image compression and denoising. We employ contrastive learning to boost the network ability to differentiate noise from high frequency signal components, by emphasizing the correlation between noisy and clean counterparts. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method both in rate-distortion performance, and codec speed, outperforming the current state-of-the-art.
title Joint End-to-End Image Compression and Denoising: Leveraging Contrastive Learning and Multi-Scale Self-ONNs
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05582