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Poster

Neural Image Compression with Text-guided Encoding for both Pixel-level and Perceptual Fidelity

Hagyeong Lee · Minkyu Kim · Jun-Hyuk Kim · Seungeon Kim · Dokwan Oh · Jaeho Lee


Abstract:

Recent advances in text-guided image compression have shown great potential to enhance the perceptual quality of reconstructed images. These methods, however, tend to have significantly degraded pixel-wise fidelity, limiting their practicality.To fill this gap, we develop a new text-guided image compression algorithm that achieves both high perceptual and pixel-wise fidelity.In particular, we propose a compression framework that leverages text information mainly by text-adaptive encoding and training with joint image-text loss. By doing so, we avoid decoding based on text-guided generative models---known for high generative diversity---and effectively utilize the semantic information of text at a global level. Experimental results on various datasets show that our method can achieve high pixel-level and perceptual quality, with either human- or machine-generated captions. In particular, our method outperforms all baselines in terms of LPIPS, with some room for even more improvements when we use more carefully generated captions.

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