B0544
Title: Efficient in-situ image compression through probabilistic image representation
Authors: Rongjie Liu - Florida State University (United States) [presenting]
Abstract: Fast and effective image compression for multi-dimensional images has become increasingly important for efficient storage and transfer of massive amounts of high-resolution images. Desirable properties in compression methods include (1) high reconstruction quality at a wide range of compression rates while preserving key local details, (2) computational scalability, (3) applicability to a variety of different image types and of different dimensions and (4) ease of tuning. We present such a method for multi-dimensional image compression called Compression via Adaptive Recursive Partitioning (CARP). CARP uses an optimal permutation of the image pixels inferred from a Bayesian probabilistic model on recursive partitions of the image to reduce its effective dimensionality, achieving a parsimonious representation that preserves information. It uses a multi-layer Bayesian hierarchical model to achieve in-situ compression along with self-tuning and regularization, with just one single parameter to be specified by the user to achieve the desired compression rate. Extensive numerical experiments using a variety of datasets including 2D still images, real-life YouTube videos, and surveillance videos show that CARP compares favorably to a wide range of popular image compression approaches, including JPEG, JPEG2000, AVI, BPG, MPEG4, HEVC, AV1, and a couple of neural network-based methods.