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Transformer-based Variable-rate Image Compression with Region-of-interest Control

18 May 2023arXiv:2305.10807archive 2025-07-28

Chia-Hao Kao, Ying-Chieh Weng, Yi-Hsin Chen, Wei-Chen Chiu, Wen-Hsiao Peng

This paper proposes a transformer-based learned image compression system. It is capable of achieving variable-rate compression with a single model while supporting the region-of-interest (ROI) functionality. Inspired by prompt tuning, we introduce prompt generation networks to condition the transformer-based autoencoder of compression. Our prompt generation networks generate content-adaptive tokens according to the input image, an ROI mask, and a rate parameter. The separation of the ROI mask and the rate parameter allows an intuitive way to achieve variable-rate and ROI coding simultaneously. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our proposed method and confirm its superiority over the other competing methods.

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