Title
Image Compression: Sparse Coding vs. Bottleneck Autoencoders.
Abstract
Bottleneck autoencoders have been actively researched as a solution to image compression tasks. However, we observed that bottleneck autoencoders produce subjectively low quality reconstructed images. In this work, we explore the ability of sparse coding to improve reconstructed image quality for the same degree of compression. We observe that sparse image compression produces visually superior reconstructed images and yields higher values of pixel-wise measures of reconstruction quality (PSNR and SSIM) compared to bottleneck autoencoders. In addition, we find that using alternative metrics that correlate better with human perception, such as feature perceptual loss and the classification accuracy, sparse image compression scores up to 18.06% and 2.7% higher, respectively, compared to bottleneck autoencoders. Although computationally much more intensive, we find that sparse coding is otherwise superior to bottleneck autoencoders for the same degree of compression.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
SSIAI
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1710.09926
1
0.36
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yijing Watkins111.71
Mohammad R. Sayeh2444.99
Oleksandr Iaroshenko310.36
Garrett T. Kenyon48119.92