HNRC: Lightweight Image Compression with Hybrid Neural Representation
摘要
Recently, image compression methods based on rate distortion autoencoder (RDAE) have achieved advanced performance. However, these methods have high decoding complexity, which limits their application on low-power devices. To address this issue, Implicit Neural Representations (INR) represents images as neural networks that map coordinates to signal values and forms INR-based image compression method. Despite with low decoding complexity, there is a significant performance gap between INR-based approaches and RDAE-based approaches. In this paper, we propose an image compression method with hybrid neural representation (HNRC) to improve compression performance of INR-based approaches while keeping decoding lightweight. Specifically, we design a Groupwise Feature Aggregation module to aggregate feature of different groups, develop a Pointwise Local Modulation module to enhance the representation of local details, and employ a Gaussian Mixture Model to improve the accuracy of rate estimation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves an approximate 1.1 dB improvement in terms of PNSR over INR-based approaches on the Kodak dataset while reducing decoding complexity by 88.9%.