arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

Rethinking Generative Image Compression at Extremely Low Bitrates

The paper introduces RAE-CoD, a diffusion-based compression method that operates in a representation autoencoder space to preserve recognizable content even at extremely low bitrates. It addresses the problem of semantic collapse observed in existing codecs when the bitrate approaches zero, showing that reconstruction losses conflict with semantic objectives and that VAE diffusion models lose efficiency in preserving semantics. Experiments on MSCOCO-30K demonstrate that RAE-CoD outperforms competitors, reducing VFM feature MSE and Fréchet Distance ratios by at least 25.7% and 69.1% at 0.001–0.008 bpp while maintaining stable recognizability and quality.

By Tianyu Zhang, Zhaoyang Jia, Houqiang Li, Dong Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

ResGVC: Residual Coding for High-fidelity Generative Video Compression

ResGVC introduces a residual coding framework for generative video compression that transmits residual signals to guide denoising directly in pixel space. The method encodes original frames with a learned video codec, decomposes the reconstruction error into residual segments at each denoising step, and compresses these segments using a residual codec powered by a diffusion transformer entropy model. Compared to prior state‑of‑the‑art methods, ResGVC achieves significant BD‑rate reductions—63.7% for LPIPS and 83.8% for PSNR—while delivering superior visual quality.

By Ding Ding, Daowen Li, Ying Chen, Kai Li