MarsQE: Semantic-Informed Quality Enhancement for Compressed Martian Image

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Chengfeng, Xu, Mai, Xing, Qunliang, Zou, Xin
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author Liu, Chengfeng
Xu, Mai
Xing, Qunliang
Zou, Xin
author_facet Liu, Chengfeng
Xu, Mai
Xing, Qunliang
Zou, Xin
contents Lossy image compression is essential for Mars exploration missions, due to the limited bandwidth between Earth and Mars. However, the compression may introduce visual artifacts that complicate the geological analysis of the Martian surface. Existing quality enhancement approaches, primarily designed for Earth images, fall short for Martian images due to a lack of consideration for the unique Martian semantics. In response to this challenge, we conduct an in-depth analysis of Martian images, yielding two key insights based on semantics: the presence of texture similarities and the compact nature of texture representations in Martian images. Inspired by these findings, we introduce MarsQE, an innovative, semantic-informed, two-phase quality enhancement approach specifically designed for Martian images. The first phase involves the semantic-based matching of texture-similar reference images, and the second phase enhances image quality by transferring texture patterns from these reference images to the compressed image. We also develop a post-enhancement network to further reduce compression artifacts and achieve superior compression quality. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that MarsQE significantly outperforms existing approaches for Earth images, establishing a new benchmark for the quality enhancement on Martian images.
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spellingShingle MarsQE: Semantic-Informed Quality Enhancement for Compressed Martian Image
Liu, Chengfeng
Xu, Mai
Xing, Qunliang
Zou, Xin
Image and Video Processing
Lossy image compression is essential for Mars exploration missions, due to the limited bandwidth between Earth and Mars. However, the compression may introduce visual artifacts that complicate the geological analysis of the Martian surface. Existing quality enhancement approaches, primarily designed for Earth images, fall short for Martian images due to a lack of consideration for the unique Martian semantics. In response to this challenge, we conduct an in-depth analysis of Martian images, yielding two key insights based on semantics: the presence of texture similarities and the compact nature of texture representations in Martian images. Inspired by these findings, we introduce MarsQE, an innovative, semantic-informed, two-phase quality enhancement approach specifically designed for Martian images. The first phase involves the semantic-based matching of texture-similar reference images, and the second phase enhances image quality by transferring texture patterns from these reference images to the compressed image. We also develop a post-enhancement network to further reduce compression artifacts and achieve superior compression quality. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that MarsQE significantly outperforms existing approaches for Earth images, establishing a new benchmark for the quality enhancement on Martian images.
title MarsQE: Semantic-Informed Quality Enhancement for Compressed Martian Image
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09433