As an emerging media format, virtual reality (VR) has attracted the attention of researchers. 6-DoF VR can reconstruct the surrounding environment with the help of the depth information of the scene, so as to provide ...
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(纸本)9781728185514
As an emerging media format, virtual reality (VR) has attracted the attention of researchers. 6-DoF VR can reconstruct the surrounding environment with the help of the depth information of the scene, so as to provide users with immersive experience. However, due to the lack of depth information in panoramic image, it is still a challenge to convert panorama to 6-DOF VR. In this paper, we propose a new depth estimation method SPCNet based on spherical convolution to solve the problem of depth information restoration of panoramic image. Particularly, spherical convolution is introduced to improve depth estimation accuracy by reducing distortion, which is attributed to Equi-Rectangular Projection (ERP). The experimental results show that many indicators of SPCNet are better than other advanced networks. For example, RMSE is 0.419 lower than UResNet. Moreover, the threshold accuracy of depth estimation has also been improved.
Stereo image super-resolution (SR) has achieved great progress in recent years. However, the two major problems of the existing methods are that the parallax correction is insufficient and the cross-view information f...
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(纸本)9781728185514
Stereo image super-resolution (SR) has achieved great progress in recent years. However, the two major problems of the existing methods are that the parallax correction is insufficient and the cross-view information fusion only occurs in the beginning of the network. To address these problems, we propose a two-stage parallax correction and a multi-stage cross-view fusion network for better stereo image SR results. Specially, the two-stage parallax correction module consists of horizontal parallax correction and refined parallax correction. The first stage corrects horizontal parallax by parallax attention. The second stage is based on deformable convolution to refine horizontal parallax and correct vertical parallax simultaneously. Then, multiple cascaded enhanced residual spatial feature transform blocks are developed to fuse cross-view information at multiple stages. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the KITTI2012, KITTI2015, Middlebury and Flickr1024 datasets.
To speedup the image classification process which conventionally takes the reconstructed images as input, compressed domain methods choose to use the compressed images without decompression as input. Correspondingly, ...
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(纸本)9781665475921
To speedup the image classification process which conventionally takes the reconstructed images as input, compressed domain methods choose to use the compressed images without decompression as input. Correspondingly, there will be a certain decline about the accuracy. Our goal in this paper is to raise the accuracy of compressed domain classification method using compressed images output by the NN-based image compression networks. Firstly, we design a hybrid objective loss function which contains the reconstruction loss of deep feature map. Secondly, one image reconstruction layer is integrated into the image classification network for up-sampling the compressed representation. These methods greatly help increase the compressed domain image classification accuracy and need no extra computational complexity. Experimental results on the benchmark imageNet prove that our design outperforms the latest work ResNet-41 with a large accuracy gain, about 4.49% on the top-1 classification accuracy. Besides, the accuracy lagging behinds the method using reconstructed images is also reduced to 0.47%. Moreover, our designed classification network has the lowest computational complexity and model complexity.
Lookup tables (LUTs) are commonly used to speed up imageprocessing by handling complex mathematical functions like sine and exponential calculations. They are used in various applications such as camera image process...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798331529543;9798331529550
Lookup tables (LUTs) are commonly used to speed up imageprocessing by handling complex mathematical functions like sine and exponential calculations. They are used in various applications such as camera imageprocessing, high-dynamic range imaging, and edge-preserving filtering. However, due to the increasing gap between computing and input/output performance, LUTs are becoming less effective. Even though specific circuits like SIMD can improve LUT efficiency, they still need to bridge the performance gap fully. The gap makes it difficult to choose between direct numerical and LUT calculations. For this problem, a register-LUTs method with the nearest neighbor was proposed;however, it is limited for functions with narrow-range values approaching zero. In this paper, we propose a method for using register LUTs to process images efficiently over a wide range of values. Our contributions include proposing register-LUT with linear interpolation for efficient computation, using a smaller data type for further efficiency, and suggesting an efficient data retrieving method.
Learned image compression (LIC) has shown its superior compression ability. Quantization is an inevitable stage to generate quantized latent for the entropy coding. To solve the non-differentiable problem of quantizat...
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(纸本)9781665475921
Learned image compression (LIC) has shown its superior compression ability. Quantization is an inevitable stage to generate quantized latent for the entropy coding. To solve the non-differentiable problem of quantization in the training phase, many differentiable approximated quantization methods have been proposed. However, the derivative of quantized latent to non-quantized latent are set as one in most of the previous methods. As a result, the quantization error between non-quantized and quantized latent is not taken into consideration in the gradient descent. To address this issue, we exploit the gradient scaling method to scale the gradient of non-quantized latent in the back-propagation. The experimental results show that we can outperform the recent LIC quantization methods.
Pixel recovery with deep learning has shown to be very effective for a variety of low-level vision tasks like image super-resolution, denoising, and deblurring. Most existing works operate in the spatial domain, and t...
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(纸本)9781728185514
Pixel recovery with deep learning has shown to be very effective for a variety of low-level vision tasks like image super-resolution, denoising, and deblurring. Most existing works operate in the spatial domain, and there are few works that exploit the transform domain for image restoration tasks. In this paper, we present a transform domain approach for image deblocking using a deep neural network called DCTResNet. Our application is compressed video motion deblur, where the input video frame has blocking artifacts that make the deblurring task very challenging. Specifically, we use a block-wise Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to decompose the image into its low and high-frequency sub-band images and exploit the strong subband specific features for more effective deblocking solutions. Since JPEG also uses DCT for image compression, using DCT sub-band images for image deblocking helps to learn the JPEG compression prior to effectively correct the blocking artifacts. Our experimental results show that both PSNR and SSIM for DCTResNet perform more favorably than other state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, while significantly faster in inference time.
Generative models have significantly advanced generative AI, particularly in image and video generation. Recognizing their potential, researchers have begun exploring their application in image compression. However, e...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798331529543;9798331529550
Generative models have significantly advanced generative AI, particularly in image and video generation. Recognizing their potential, researchers have begun exploring their application in image compression. However, existing methods face two primary challenges: limited performance improvement and high model complexity. In this paper, to address these two challenges, we propose a perceptual image compression solution by introducing a conditional diffusion model. Given that compression performance heavily depends on the decoder's generative capability, we base our decoder on the diffusion transformer architecture. To address the model complexity problem, we implement the diffusion transformer architecture with Swin transformer. Equipped with enhanced generative capability, we further augment the decoder with informative features using a multi-scale feature fusion module. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach surpasses existing perceptual image compression methods while achieving lower model complexity.
The recently approved digital still image standard known as JPEG2000 promises to be an excellent image and video format for use with a large range of applications. For adoption of the standard to take place in the con...
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The recently approved digital still image standard known as JPEG2000 promises to be an excellent image and video format for use with a large range of applications. For adoption of the standard to take place in the consumer marketplace, implementations supporting real-time encoding and decoding of popular image and video formats must be created. It is a well-known fact that the major bottleneck of a JPEG2000 system is the bit/context modeling and arithmetic coding tasks (also known as tier-1 coding). This paper discusses a hardware implementation of a tier-1 coder that exploits available parallelisms. The proposed technique described in this paper is approximately 50% faster than the best technique described in the literature(1).
In this paper, we present the implementation of the robust detail preserving filters with complex noise suppression for imageprocessing applications. The designed filter is the consequential connection of two filters...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819444111
In this paper, we present the implementation of the robust detail preserving filters with complex noise suppression for imageprocessing applications. The designed filter is the consequential connection of two filters. The first filter uses the value of central pixel of the filtering window to provide the preservation of fine details and the redescending M-estimators combined with the median estimator to provide impulsive noise rejection. The second filter uses the output of the first filter as the pre-estimator for an adaptive calculation in the redescending M-estimator. We investigated various types of influence functions in the M-estimator those are similar to the ones used in the Sigma filter to provide multiplicative noise suppression. The optimal values of the parameters of designed filters in presence of different noise mixture are determined. Different simulation data are presented in the paper and shown the statistical efficiency of the filters.
Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding...
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(纸本)9781665475921
Spatial frequency analysis and transforms serve a central role in most engineered image and video lossy codecs, but are rarely employed in neural network (NN)-based approaches. We propose a novel NN-based image coding framework that utilizes forward wavelet transforms to decompose the input signal by spatial frequency. Our encoder generates separate bitstreams for each latent representation of low and high frequencies. This enables our decoder to selectively decode bitstreams in a quality-scalable manner. Hence, the decoder can produce an enhanced image by using an enhancement bitstream in addition to the base bitstream. Furthermore, our method is able to enhance only a specific region of interest (ROI) by using a corresponding part of the enhancement latent representation. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method shows competitive rate-distortion performance compared to several non-scalable image codecs. We also showcase the effectiveness of our two-level quality scalability, as well as its practicality in ROI quality enhancement.
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