The Utility of Decorrelating Colour Spaces in Vector Quantised Variational Autoencoders

Arash Akbarinia, Raquel Gil-Rodríguez, Alban Flachot +1

Vector quantised variational autoencoders (VQ-VAE) are characterised by three main components: 1) encoding visual data, 2) assigning $k$ different vectors in the so-called embeddin…