Unified ROI-based Image Compression Paradigm with Generalized Gaussian Model

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Auteurs principaux: Hu, Kai, Tan, Junfu, Xu, Fang, Samy, Ramy, Liu, Yu
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author Hu, Kai
Tan, Junfu
Xu, Fang
Samy, Ramy
Liu, Yu
author_facet Hu, Kai
Tan, Junfu
Xu, Fang
Samy, Ramy
Liu, Yu
contents Region-of-Interest (ROI)-based image compression allocates bits unevenly according to the semantic importance of different regions. Such differentiated coding typically induces a sharp-peaked and heavy-tailed distribution. This distribution characteristic mathematically necessitates a probability model with adaptable shape parameters for accurate description. However, existing methods commonly use a Gaussian model to fit this distribution, resulting in a loss of coding performance. To systematically analyze the impact of this distribution on ROI coding, we develop a unified rate-distortion optimization theoretical paradigm. Building on this paradigm, we propose a novel Generalized Gaussian Model (GGM) to achieve flexible modeling of the latent variables distribution. To support stable optimization of GGM, we introduce effective differentiable functions and further propose a dynamic lower bound to alleviate train-test mismatch. Moreover, finite differences are introduced to solve the gradient computation after GGM fits the distribution. Experiments on COCO2017 demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art in both ROI reconstruction and downstream tasks (e.g., Segmentation, Object Detection). Furthermore, compared to classical probability models, our GGM provides a more precise fit to feature distributions and achieves superior coding performance. The project page is at https://github.com/hukai-tju/ROIGGM.
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spellingShingle Unified ROI-based Image Compression Paradigm with Generalized Gaussian Model
Hu, Kai
Tan, Junfu
Xu, Fang
Samy, Ramy
Liu, Yu
Image and Video Processing
Multimedia
Region-of-Interest (ROI)-based image compression allocates bits unevenly according to the semantic importance of different regions. Such differentiated coding typically induces a sharp-peaked and heavy-tailed distribution. This distribution characteristic mathematically necessitates a probability model with adaptable shape parameters for accurate description. However, existing methods commonly use a Gaussian model to fit this distribution, resulting in a loss of coding performance. To systematically analyze the impact of this distribution on ROI coding, we develop a unified rate-distortion optimization theoretical paradigm. Building on this paradigm, we propose a novel Generalized Gaussian Model (GGM) to achieve flexible modeling of the latent variables distribution. To support stable optimization of GGM, we introduce effective differentiable functions and further propose a dynamic lower bound to alleviate train-test mismatch. Moreover, finite differences are introduced to solve the gradient computation after GGM fits the distribution. Experiments on COCO2017 demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art in both ROI reconstruction and downstream tasks (e.g., Segmentation, Object Detection). Furthermore, compared to classical probability models, our GGM provides a more precise fit to feature distributions and achieves superior coding performance. The project page is at https://github.com/hukai-tju/ROIGGM.
title Unified ROI-based Image Compression Paradigm with Generalized Gaussian Model
topic Image and Video Processing
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01325