DiffPC: Diffusion-based High Perceptual Fidelity Image Compression with Semantic Refinement
Keywords: lossy image compression, diffusion model
Abstract: Reconstructing high-quality images under low bitrates conditions presents a challenge, and previous methods have made this task feasible by leveraging the priors of diffusion models. However, the effective exploration of pre-trained latent diffusion models and semantic information integration in image compression tasks still needs further study. To address this issue, we introduce Diffusion-based High Perceptual Fidelity Image Compression with Semantic Refinement (DiffPC), a two-stage image compression framework based on stable diffusion. DiffPC efficiently encodes low-level image information, enabling the highly realistic reconstruction of the original image by leveraging high-level semantic features and the prior knowledge inherent in diffusion models. Specifically, DiffPC utilizes a multi-feature compressor to represent crucial low-level information with minimal bitrates and employs pre-embedding to acquire more robust hybrid semantics, thereby providing additional context for the decoding end. Furthermore, we have devised a control module tailored for image compression tasks, ensuring structural and textural consistency in reconstruction even at low bitrates and preventing decoding collapses induced by condition leakage. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art perceptual fidelity and surpasses previous perceptual image compression methods by a significant margin in statistical fidelity.
Primary Area: generative models
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