NICE framework explains CNN predictions and compresses images.
problem Interpreting deep neural networks and efficient image compression.
method End-to-end Neural Image Compression and Explanation (NICE) framework.
result NICE achieves high compression rates while maintaining classification accuracy.
New hierarchical VQ-VAE scheme improves image compression quality and features at low bitrates.
problem Low bitrate image compression maintaining quality and features.
method Hierarchical VQ-VAE with stochastic quantization and Markovian latent variables.
result High perceptual quality and semantic features at low bitrates.
Auto-Compressing Subset Pruning reduces model size for faster inference.
problem High parameter counts and slow inference times in semantic segmentation models.
method Learning a channel selection mechanism based on temperature annealing schedule.
result Significant compression of segmentation models with acceptable inference performance.
Paper presents a new video compression method using autoencoders.
problem Efficient video compression with reduced quality loss.
method 3D autoencoder with discrete latent space and autoregressive prior trained jointly.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art learned video compression networks.
Improved image recovery with minimal data using untrained neural networks.
problem Solving inverse problems with limited data.
method Pre-training neural networks with a small number of examples to improve performance.
result Performance increases as data increases, matching generative models with less than 1% of training data.
Real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles on FPGA reduces latency and power consumption.
problem Efficient real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous vehicles.
method Compressed ENet architecture, FPGA deployment, batch processing, filter reduction, quantization-aware training.
result Reduced latency to 3 ms per image with batch size of ten and 40% resource utilization.
New memory allocation scheme improves image generation performance.
problem Improving episodic and semantic memory representation in neural networks.
method Developed a hierarchical latent variable model with differentiable, locally block allocated latent memory.
result Improved conditional likelihood values on various datasets.
New system preserves message meaning in wireless networks, improving data rate.
problem Efficiently transmitting message meaning in wireless networks.
method Modeling semantics as hidden random variables, using Information Bottleneck for compression.
result 20 dB SNR improvement for semantic communication.
Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding (Graph-RISE), a large-scale neural graph learning framework that allows us to tr…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have obtained extraordinary success in the generation of realistic images, a domain where a lower pixel-level accuracy is acceptable. We study the problem, not yet tackled in the literature, of generating semantic images starting from a prior distribution. Intuitively this problem…
Semantic inpainting is the task of inferring missing pixels in an image given surrounding pixels and high level image semantics. Most semantic inpainting algorithms are deterministic: given an image with missing regions, a single inpainted image is generated. However, there are often several plausible inpaintings for a…
Paper proposes a method to improve semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images.
problem Semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images is challenging due to distortion and lack of large datasets.
method A seven degrees of freedom augmentation method is proposed to transform rectilinear images into fisheye images.
result Training with seven-DoF augmentation improves model accuracy and robustness against distorted fisheye data.
New diffusion models improve counterfactual image generation with semantic control.
problem Challenges in preserving identity, maintaining quality, and ensuring causal model faithfulness in counterfactual image generation.
method Integrates semantic representations into diffusion models through Pearlian causality, introducing spatial, semantic, and dynamic abduction.
result Demonstrates high-level semantic identity preservation and principled trade-offs between faithful causal control and identity preservation.
Enhances image classification by integrating semantic hierarchy into CNN models.
problem Limited use of external guidance in image classification.
method Integrates label-hierarchy knowledge into CNN-based classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings.
result Boosts image classification performance through semantic hierarchy integration.
A new method, REC, compresses images by encoding their latent representations efficiently.
problem Efficiently compressing single images with latent representations.
method Relative Entropy Coding (REC) that directly encodes latent representations with codelength close to relative entropy.
result REC is more efficient for single image compression compared to previous methods and is competitive for lossy compression.
New method reduces neural image compression run-time by 50%.
problem Computational efficiency of neural image compression models.
method Automatic network optimization to reduce decoder complexity.
result Decreased decoder run-time by over 50%.
This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.
problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.
HiLLoC compresses large images losslessly using VAEs.
problem Lossless compression of large color photographs.
method Fully convolutional VAE models trained on ImageNet are applied to lossless compression.
result Achieves state-of-the-art compression for full-size ImageNet images.
Self-supervised learning of visual semantics in image games.
problem Learning visual semantics in referential emergent language games.
method Investigating the impact of feature extractor weights and tasks on visual semantics, using various image augmentations and additional tasks.
result Communication systems can learn visual semantics in a self-supervised manner by playing the right types of games.
New method evaluates text-to-image synthesis for realism, variety, and semantic accuracy.
problem Lack of metrics revealing semantic accuracy in text-to-image synthesis.
method Uses Inception network representations and t-SNE visualization for semantic evaluation.
result Classification accuracy of generated images to real images' visual concepts correlates with semantic accuracy.
This paper proposes synthetic augmentation for nuclei image segmentation in medical pathology.
problem Rare and time-consuming labeling of tumor nuclei images for semantic segmentation.
method Label-to-image translation to generate synthetic images.
result Synthetic augmentation improves segmentation accuracy.
The thesis introduces methods to use semantic hierarchy in image classification.
problem Limited work in training image classifiers with non-conventional external guidance.
method Injects label hierarchy knowledge into arbitrary classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings for image classification.
result Both embedding-based models and CNN-classifiers with hierarchical information outperform a hierarchy-agnostic model.
Paper proposes structured semantic perturbations to improve adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Manipulates semantic attributes via disentangled latent codes.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of structured semantic perturbations.
This survey analyzes deep learning methods for real-time semantic image segmentation.
problem Efficient and accurate semantic image segmentation for real-time applications.
method Comprehensive analysis of deep learning architectures and techniques for fast inference.
result Best-performing architectures and techniques for real-time semantic image segmentation.
We present a framework for translating unlabeled images from one domain into analog images in another domain. We employ a progressively growing skip-connected encoder-generator structure and train it with a GAN loss for realistic output, a cycle consistency loss for maintaining same-domain translation identity, and a s…
Cloud based medical image analysis has become popular recently due to the high computation complexities of various deep neural network (DNN) based frameworks and the increasingly large volume of medical images that need to be processed. It has been demonstrated that for medical images the transmission from local to clo…
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The core idea is that the visual features and the semantic attributes of an image can s…
Turbo-DDCM speeds up zero-shot image compression.
problem Slowness and high computational demand in zero-shot diffusion-based compression.
method Modified DDCM framework with Turbo-DDCM, combining noise vectors and improved encoding.
result Turbo-DDCM achieves faster compression than state-of-the-art methods.
New method improves image compression using bits-back coding.
problem Lossy image compression with deep latent variable models.
method Iterative inference, stochastic annealing, bits-back coding.
result New state-of-the-art performance on lossy image compression.
SHVC improves image compression with fewer parameters.
problem Challenges in VAE compression, especially with bits-back coding.
method Introduces autoregressive sub-pixel convolution and autoregressive initial bits.
result Achieves state-of-the-art compression performance with fewer model parameters.
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 autoencoder and are used in combination with reconstruction losses. The compression objective encourages sparsity and low entropy in the activatio…
Advocates Tversky's model for image similarity learning.
problem Learning Tversky similarity measures from image data.
method Computational approach using Tversky's ratio model.
result Performs well compared to existing methods on image datasets.
Review of image compressive sensing algorithms for beginners.
problem Efficiently processing images with limited data.
method Comprehensive review of Total variation methods and other algorithms.
result Standardized comparison of algorithms for compressive sensing applications.
ScoreAG generates unrestricted adversarial images maintaining semantic integrity.
problem Limited robustness evaluations due to ℓp-norm constraints. method Score-Based Adversarial Generation (ScoreAG) using score-based generative models.
result ScoreAG improves robustness assessments across multiple benchmarks.
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. At encoder side, we fine-tune a pre-trained artifact removal network on target data by using a compression objective applied on the weight-u…
Paper develops a framework for generating coherent image captions using visual features and hierarchical topics.
problem Generating semantically coherent paragraphs to describe image content.
method Plug-and-play hierarchical-topic-guided image paragraph generation framework integrating visual extractor and deep topic model.
result Proposed models can distill interpretable multi-layer semantic topics and generate diverse and coherent captions.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of computer vision tasks, particularly visual classification problems, where new algorithms reported to achieve or even surpass the human performance. In this paper, we examine whether CNNs are capable of learning the semantics…
Representation learning systems typically rely on massive amounts of labeled data in order to be trained to high accuracy. Recently, high-dimensional parametric models like neural networks have succeeded in building rich representations using either compressive, reconstructive or supervised criteria. However, the seman…
C3 compresses images and videos with low complexity and high performance.
problem High complexity and low performance in neural compression models.
method Overfits a small model to each image or video separately, improving RD performance with low complexity.
result Matches the RD performance of state-of-the-art neural and video codecs with significantly lower decoding complexity.
NeLLoC improves image compression with parallel decoding.
problem Image compression with OOD generalization.
method Local autoregressive model with parallel decoding.
result Significant gains in compression runtime.
RandNet learns from compressed image data, improving efficiency and accuracy.
problem Efficiency and accuracy in training neural networks with large datasets.
method RandNet uses compressed random measurements of images to train neural networks efficiently.
result RandNet achieves comparable accuracy to full data training with minimal loss.
Compressed sensing in MRI enables high subsampling factors while maintaining diagnostic image quality. This technique enables shortened scan durations and/or improved image resolution. Further, compressed sensing can increase the diagnostic information and value from each scan performed. Overall, compressed sensing has…
End-to-end meta-learned system for image compression.
problem Reducing the gap between training and inference conditions in image compression.
method Model-Agnostic Meta-learning approach for latent tensor overfitting and updating encoder and decoder networks.
result Meta-learned system achieves better compression performance compared to traditional methods.
The paper uses differentiable rendering to generate semantic counterexamples for improving neural network robustness.
problem Neural networks' brittleness to semantic transformations.
method Differentiable rendering for generating realistic images that model semantic changes, combined with adversarial machine learning attacks.
result Semantic counterexamples improve generalization, robustness, and transferability of neural networks.
Single model corrects JPEG artifacts for various compression settings.
problem JPEG compression artifacts due to aggressive quantization.
method Parameterized architecture using quantization matrix.
result State-of-the-art performance across different quality settings.
A new method for image translation using disentangled style and content preservation.
problem Difficulty in maintaining original content during reverse diffusion in diffusion-based image translation.
method Disentangled style and content representation using intermediate keys from ViT model, CLIP loss, semantic divergence loss, and resampling strategy.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in text-guided and image-guided translation tasks.
Paper tackles zero-shot learning for semantic image interpretation.
problem Extracting structured semantic descriptions from images requires complete training sets, which are often unavailable.
method Uses Logic Tensor Networks to leverage logical constraints and similarities among relationships in the training set.
result Background knowledge can alleviate the incompleteness of training sets, improving zero-shot learning performance.
We propose a new approach to the problem of optimizing autoencoders for lossy image compression. New media formats, changing hardware technology, as well as diverse requirements and content types create a need for compression algorithms which are more flexible than existing codecs. Autoencoders have the potential to ad…