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Learning based Facial Image Compression with Semantic Fidelity Metric

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arXiv 2018年

作者： Chen, Zhibo He, Tianyu CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

Surveillance and security scenarios usually require high efficient facial image compression scheme for face recognition and identification. While either traditional general image codecs or special facial image compression schemes only heuristically refine codec separately according to face verification accuracy metric. We propose a Learning based Facial Image Compression (LFIC) framework with a novel Regionally Adaptive Pooling (RAP) module whose parameters can be automatically optimized according to gradient feedback from an integrated hybrid semantic fidelity metric, including a successfully exploration to apply Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) as metric directly in image compression scheme. The experimental results verify the framework’s efficiency by demonstrating performance improvement of 71.41%, 48.28% and 52.67% bitrate saving separately over JPEG2000, WebP and neural network-based codecs under the same face verification accuracy distortion metric. We also evaluate LFIC’s superior performance gain compared with latest specific facial image codecs. Visual experiments also show some interesting insight on how LFIC can automatically capture the information in critical areas based on semantic distortion metrics for optimized compression, which is quite different from the heuristic way of optimization in traditional image compression algorithms. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Image compression

LEARNED SCALABLE IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH BIDIRECTIONAL CONTEXT DISENTANGLEMENT NETWORK

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arXiv 2018年

作者： Zhang, Zhizheng Chen, Zhibo Lin, Jianxin Li, Weiping CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

In this paper, we propose a learned scalable/progressive image compression scheme based on deep neural networks (DNN), named Bidirectional Context Disentanglement Network (BCD-Net). For learning hierarchical representations, we first adopt bit-plane decomposition to decompose the information coarsely before the deep-learning-based transformation. However, the information carried by different bit-planes is not only unequal in entropy but also of different importance for reconstruction. We thus take the hidden features corresponding to different bit-planes as the context and design a network topology with bidirectional flows to disentangle the contextual information for more effective compressed representations. Our proposed scheme enables us to obtain the compressed codes with scalable rates via a one-pass encoding-decoding. Experiment results demonstrate that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art DNN-based scalable image compression methods in both PSNR and MS-SSIM metrics. In addition, our proposed model achieves better performance in MS-SSIM metric than conventional scalable image codecs. Effectiveness of our technical components is also verified through sufficient ablation experiments. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Deep neural networks

A CNN-Based In-Loop Filter with CU Classification for HEVC

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A CNN-Based In-Loop Filter with CU Classification for HEVC

IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)

作者： Yuanying Dai Dong Liu Zheng-Jun Zha Feng Wu CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

ISBN: (纸本)9781538644591;9781538644584

Lossy compression of image and video yields visually annoying artifacts including blocking, blurring, ringing, etc., especially at low bit rates. In-loop filtering techniques can reduce these artifacts, improve quality, and achieve coding gain accordingly. In this paper, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based in-loop filter for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). First, we design a new CNN structure that is composed of multiple Variable-filter-size Residue-learning blocks, namely VRCNN-ext, for artifact reduction. VRCNN-ext is trained by natural images as well as their compressed versions at different quality levels. Second, we investigate a new in-loop filter based on the trained VRCNN-ext models. Specifically, we observed that using VRCNN-ext directly on the inter pictures is not effective. To solve this problem, we further train a classifier to decide whether to use VRCNN-ext for each coding unit (CU). The classifier makes decision based on the compressed information, thus avoiding the overhead bits to control the on/off of the CNN-based filter at the CU level. Experimental results show that our scheme achieves significant bits saving than the HEVC anchor, leading to on average 9.2%, 9.6% and 7.4% BD-rate reduction on the HEVC test sequences, under all-intra, low-delay B and random-access configurations, respectively.

关键词： Decoding Encoding Training Image coding Feature extraction Copper Video coding

SDM: Semantic Distortion Measurement for Video Encryption

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SDM: Semantic Distortion Measurement for Video Encryption

International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

作者： Yongquan Hu Wei Zhou Shuxin Zhao Zhibo Chen Weiping Li CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

Semantic information is important in video encryption. However, existing image quality assessment (IQA) methods, such as the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), are still widely applied to measure the encryption security. Generally, these traditional IQA methods aim to evaluate the image quality from the perspective of visual signal rather than semantic information. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic-level full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) method named Semantic Distortion Measurement (SDM) to measure the degree of semantic distortion for video encryption. Then, based on a semantic saliency dataset, we verify that the proposed SDM method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms. Furthermore, we construct a Region Of Semantic Saliency (ROSS) video encryption system to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed SDM method in the practical application.

关键词： Semantics Encryption Distortion Distortion measurement Visualization Object segmentation

Convolutional Neural Network-Based Residue Super-Resolution for Video Coding

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Convolutional Neural Network-Based Residue Super-Resolution ...

IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)

作者： Kang Liu Dong Liu Houqiang Li Feng Wu CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

ISBN: (纸本)9781538644591;9781538644584

Inspired by the progress of image and video super-resolution (SR) achieved by convolutional neural network (CNN), we propose a CNN-based residue SR method for video coding. Different from the previous works that operate in the pixel domain, i.e. down- and up-sampling of image or video frame, we propose to perform down- and up-sampling in the residue domain. Specifically, for each block, we perform motion estimation and compensation to achieve residual signal at the original resolution, then we down-sample the residue and compress it at low resolution, and perform residue SR using a trained CNN model. We design a new CNN for residue SR with the help of the motion compensated prediction signal. We integrate the residue SR method into the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) scheme, providing mode decision at the level of coding tree unit. Experimental results show that our method achieves on average 4.0% and 2.8% BD-rate reduction under low-delay P and low-delay B configurations, respectively.

关键词： Encoding Signal resolution Video coding Spatial resolution Delays Convolution

End-to-End Facial Image Compression with Integrated Semantic Distortion Metric

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End-to-End Facial Image Compression with Integrated Semantic...

IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)

作者： Tianyu He Zhibo Chen CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

ISBN: (纸本)9781538644591;9781538644584

High efficient facial image compression is broadly required and challenging for surveillance and security scenarios, while either traditional general image codecs or special facial image compression schemes only heuristically refine codec separately according to face verification accuracy metric. We propose an End-to-End Facial Image Compression (E2EFIC) framework with a novel variable block size Regionally Adaptive Pooling (RAP) module whose parameters can be automatically optimized according to gradient feedback from an integrated semantic distortion metrics, including a successful exploration to apply Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) as metric directly in image compression scheme. The experimental results verify the framework's efficiency by demonstrating performance improvement of 71.41%, 48.28% and 52.67% bitrate saving separately over JPEG2000, WebP and neural network-based codecs under the same face verification accuracy distortion metric. We also evaluate E2EFIC's superior performance gain compared with latest specific facial image codecs.

关键词： Image coding Distortion Semantics Face Bit rate Codecs

Generative Adversarial Network-Based Frame Extrapolation for Video Coding

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Generative Adversarial Network-Based Frame Extrapolation for...

IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)

作者： Jianping Lin Dong Liu Houqiang Li Feng Wu CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China

ISBN: (纸本)9781538644591;9781538644584

Motion estimation and motion compensation are fundamental in video coding to remove the temporal redundancy between video frames. The current video coding schemes usually adopt block-based motion estimation and compensation using simple translational or affine motion models, which cannot efficiently characterize complex motions in natural video signal. In this paper, we propose a frame extrapolation method for motion estimation and compensation. Specifically, based on the several previous frames, our method directly extrapolates the current frame using a trained deep network model. The deep network we adopted is a redesigned Video Coding oriented LAplacian Pyramid of Generative Adversarial Networks (VC-LAPGAN). The extrapolated frame is then used as an additional reference frame. Experimental results show that the VC-LAPGAN is capable in estimating and compensating for complex motions, and extrapolating frames with high visual quality. Using the VC-LAPGAN, our method achieves on average 2.0% BD-rate reduction than High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) under low-delay P configuration.

关键词： Video coding Motion estimation Training Computational modeling Extrapolation Laplace equations Convolutional codes

Learning for video compression

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arXiv 2018年

作者： Chen, Zhibo He, Tianyu Jin, Xin Wu, Feng CAS Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System University of Science and Technology of China Hefei230027 China

One key challenge to learning-based video compression is that motion predictive coding, a very effective tool for video compression, can hardly be trained into a neural network. In this paper we propose the concept of PixelMotionCNN (PMCNN) which includes motion extension and hybrid prediction networks. PMCNN can model spatiotemporal coherence to effectively perform predictive coding inside the learning network. On the basis of PMCNN, we further explore a learning-based framework for video compression with additional components of iterative analysis/synthesis, binarization, etc. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. Although entropy coding and complex configurations are not employed in this paper, we still demonstrate superior performance compared with MPEG-2 and achieve comparable results with H.264 codec. The proposed learning-based scheme provides a possible new direction to further improve compression efficiency and functionalities of future video coding. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Image compression

What, Where and How to Transfer in SAR Target Recognition Based on Deep CNNs

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arXiv 2019年

作者： Huang, Zhongling Pan, Zongxu Lei, Bin School of Electronic Electrical and Communication Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Huairou District Beijing101408 China Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing100190 China Institute of Electronics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing100190 China

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have attracted much attention in remote sensing recently. Compared with the large-scale annotated dataset in natural images, the lack of labeled data in remote sensing becomes an obstacle to train a deep network very well, especially in SAR image interpretation. Transfer learning provides an effective way to solve this problem by borrowing the knowledge from the source task to the target task. In optical remote sensing application, a prevalent mechanism is to fine-tune on an existing model pre-trained with a large-scale natural image dataset, such as ImageNet. However, this scheme does not achieve satisfactory performance for SAR application because of the prominent discrepancy between SAR and optical images. In this paper, we attempt to discuss three issues that are seldom studied before in detail: (1) what network and source tasks are better to transfer to SAR targets, (2) in which layer are transferred features more generic to SAR targets and (3) how to transfer effectively to SAR targets recognition. Based on the analysis, a transitive transfer method via multi-source data with domain adaptation is proposed in this paper to decrease the discrepancy between the source data and SAR targets. Several experiments are conducted on OpenSARShip. The results indicate that the universal conclusions about transfer learning in natural images cannot be completely applied to SAR targets, and the analysis of what and where to transfer in SAR target recognition is helpful to decide how to transfer more effectively. Copyright © 2019, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Deep neural networks