LLIC: Large Receptive Field Transform Coding with Adaptive Weights for Learned Image Compression

Effective Receptive field (ERF) plays an important role in transform coding, which determines how much redundancy can be removed at most during transform and how many spatial priors can be utilized to synthesize textures during inverse transform. Existing methods rely on stacks of small kernels, whose ERF remains not large enough instead, or heavy non-local attention mechanisms, which limit the potential of high resolution image coding. To tackle this issue, we propose Large Receptive Field Transform Coding with Adaptive Weights …

coding compression cs.cv cs.mm eess.iv image redundancy role small spatial stacks