AN EFFICIENT END-TO-END IMAGE COMPRESSION TRANSFORMER

Abstract

Image and video compression received significant research attention and expanded their applications. Existing entropy estimation-based methods combine with hyperprior and local context, limiting their efficacy. This paper introduces an efficient end-to-end transformer-based image compression model, which generates a global receptive field to tackle the long-range correlation issues. A hyper encoder-decoder-based transformer block employs a multi-head spatial reduction self-attention (MHSRSA) layer to minimize the computational cost of the self-attention layer and enable rapid learning of multi-scale and high-resolution features. A Casual Global Anticipation Module (CGAM) is designed to construct highly informative adjacent contexts utilizing channel-wise linkages and identify global reference points in the latent space for end-to-end rate-distortion optimization (RDO). Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and competitive performance of the KODAK dataset.