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    Kai Cui Headshot
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    Kai Cui
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    Technische Universität München
    Country
    Country
    Germany
    Abstract

    Lossy compressed images usually suffer from unpleasant artifacts, especially when the bitrate is low. In order to improve the image quality while keeping the bit rate the same, decoder-side compression artifacts reduction (CAR) becomes necessary. Recently, convolutional neural networks are adopted for CAR tasks and achieve the state-of-the-art performance. However, most CAR algorithms only focus on the reconstruction of the luminance channel. Also, they train a separate model for each quality factor (QF), which makes these approaches not practical in a real codec. In this paper, we propose a quality-blind training strategy to train a single model to enhance color images compressed with a wide range of quality levels. Our experimental results for three representative CAR algorithms show the superiority of the proposed quality-blind training compared to separate training. The results for pseudo and real quality-blind CAR tests further prove the generalizability of the quality-blind training for practical CAR tasks.

    Slides
    • Quality-Blind Compressed Color Image Enhancement with Convolutional Neural Networks (application/pdf)