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Publications (6)

cs.LG2022

Hybrid Neural Autoencoders for Stimulus Encoding in Visual and Other Sensory Neuroprostheses

Jacob Granley, Lucas Relic, Michael Beyeler

Sensory neuroprostheses are emerging as a promising technology to restore lost sensory function or augment human capabilities. However, sensations elicited by current devices often…

eess.IV2025

Bridging the Gap between Gaussian Diffusion Models and Universal Quantization for Image Compression

Lucas Relic, Roberto Azevedo, Yang Zhang +2

Generative neural image compression supports data representation at extremely low bitrate, synthesizing details at the client and consistently producing highly realistic images. By…

eess.IV2026

DiV-INR: Extreme Low-Bitrate Diffusion Video Compression with INR Conditioning

Eren Çetin, Lucas Relic, Yuanyi Xue +3

We present a perceptually-driven video compression framework integrating implicit neural representations (INRs) and pre-trained video diffusion models to address the extremely low…

eess.IV2026

Region-Adaptive Generative Compression with Spatially Varying Diffusion Models

Lucas Relic, Roberto Azevedo, Yang Zhang +3

Generative image codecs aim to optimize perceptual quality, producing realistic and detailed reconstructions. However, they often overlook a key property of human vision: our tende…

eess.IV2024

Lossy Image Compression with Foundation Diffusion Models

Lucas Relic, Roberto Azevedo, Markus Gross +1

Incorporating diffusion models in the image compression domain has the potential to produce realistic and detailed reconstructions, especially at extremely low bitrates. Previous m…

cs.CV2022

Deep Learning-Based Perceptual Stimulus Encoder for Bionic Vision

Lucas Relic, Bowen Zhang, Yi-Lin Tuan +1

Retinal implants have the potential to treat incurable blindness, yet the quality of the artificial vision they produce is still rudimentary. An outstanding challenge is identifyin…