Introduction

Official Pytorch implementation for image compression based on VQGAN model includes:

• Finetuned-GAN:Extreme Image Compression using Fine-tuned VQGAN Models, DCC 2024, in this folder
• UIGC:Unifying Generation and Compression: Ultra-low bitrate Image Coding Via Multi-stage Transformer, ICME 2024， in this floder

❤️ Acknowledgement

The implementation is based on VQGAN.

📋 Citation

If you find this work useful for your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{mao2024extreme,
  title={Extreme image compression using fine-tuned vqgans},
  author={Mao, Qi and Yang, Tinghan and Zhang, Yinuo and Wang, Zijian and Wang, Meng and Wang, Shiqi and Jin, Libiao and Ma, Siwei},
  booktitle={2024 Data Compression Conference (DCC)},
  pages={203--212},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{xue2024unifying,
  title={Unifying Generation and Compression: Ultra-low bitrate Image Coding Via Multi-stage Transformer},
  author={Xue, Naifu and Mao, Qi and Wang, Zijian and Zhang, Yuan and Ma, Siwei},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)}, 
  pages={1-6},
  year={2024}，
  organization={IEEE}
}