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20182026
most citedBlock-optimized Variable Bit Rate Neural Image Compression

10 citations · 44 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

eess.IV2026

CASR: Content-Adaptive Neural Super-Resolution Post-Filter for Versatile Video Coding via Low-Rank Overfitting

Khoa Pham-Dinh, Francesco Cricri, Maria Santamaria +5

The use of super-resolution as a post-processing step following a video codec allows videos to be encoded at reduced spatial resolution at the encoder side and to be reconstructed…

eess.IV2024

NN-VVC: Versatile Video Coding boosted by self-supervisedly learned image coding for machines

Jukka I. Ahonen, Nam Le, Honglei Zhang +5

The recent progress in artificial intelligence has led to an ever-increasing usage of images and videos by machine analysis algorithms, mainly neural networks. Nonetheless, compres…

eess.IV2024★ 7 cited

Bridging the gap between image coding for machines and humans

Nam Le, Honglei Zhang, Francesco Cricri +5

Image coding for machines (ICM) aims at reducing the bitrate required to represent an image while minimizing the drop in machine vision analysis accuracy. In many use cases, such a…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Leveraging progressive model and overfitting for efficient learned image compression

Honglei Zhang, Francesco Cricri, Hamed Rezazadegan Tavakoli +2

Deep learning is overwhelmingly dominant in the field of computer vision and image/video processing for the last decade. However, for image and video compression, it lags behind th…

eess.IV2022★ 6 cited

Coding of volumetric content with MIV using VVC subpictures

Maria Santamaria, Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital, Lukasz Kondrad +2

Storage and transport of six degrees of freedom (6DoF) dynamic volumetric visual content for immersive applications requires efficient compression. ISO/IEC MPEG has recently been w…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF): Toolbox for Virtual Reality Services

Sachin Deshpande, Miska M. Hannuksela

This paper provides an overview of the Omnidirectional Media Format (OMAF) standard, second edition, which has been recently finalized. OMAF specifies the media format for coding,…

eess.IV2021

Adaptation and Attention for Neural Video Coding

Nannan Zou, Honglei Zhang, Francesco Cricri +6

Neural image coding represents now the state-of-the-art image compression approach. However, a lot of work is still to be done in the video domain. In this work, we propose an end-…

eess.IV2021

Lossless Image Compression Using a Multi-Scale Progressive Statistical Model

Honglei Zhang, Francesco Cricri, Hamed R. Tavakoli +3

Lossless image compression is an important technique for image storage and transmission when information loss is not allowed. With the fast development of deep learning techniques,…

eess.IV2020

Efficient Adaptation of Neural Network Filter for Video Compression

Yat-Hong Lam, Alireza Zare, Francesco Cricri +2

We present an efficient finetuning methodology for neural-network filters which are applied as a postprocessing artifact-removal step in video coding pipelines. The fine-tuning is…

eess.IV2020

Learning to Learn to Compress

Nannan Zou, Honglei Zhang, Francesco Cricri +5

In this paper we present an end-to-end meta-learned system for image compression. Traditional machine learning based approaches to image compression train one or more neural networ…

eess.IV2020★ 2 cited

End-to-End Learning for Video Frame Compression with Self-Attention

Nannan Zou, Honglei Zhang, Francesco Cricri +5

One of the core components of conventional (i.e., non-learned) video codecs consists of predicting a frame from a previously-decoded frame, by leveraging temporal correlations. In…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

Compressing Weight-updates for Image Artifacts Removal Neural Networks

Yat Hong Lam, Alireza Zare, Caglar Aytekin +4

In this paper, we present a novel approach for fine-tuning a decoder-side neural network in the context of image compression, such that the weight-updates are better compressible.…

eess.IV2019★ 6 cited

A Compression Objective and a Cycle Loss for Neural Image Compression

Caglar Aytekin, Francesco Cricri, Antti Hallapuro +3

In this manuscript we propose two objective terms for neural image compression: a compression objective and a cycle loss. These terms are applied on the encoder output of an autoen…

cs.LG2018★ 10 cited

Block-optimized Variable Bit Rate Neural Image Compression

Caglar Aytekin, Xingyang Ni, Francesco Cricri +3

In this work, we propose an end-to-end block-based auto-encoder system for image compression. We introduce novel contributions to neural-network based image compression, mainly in…