Prompt-ICM: A Unified Framework towards Image Coding for Machines with Task-driven Prompts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02578v1
• Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 06:21:10 GMT
• Title: Prompt-ICM: A Unified Framework towards Image Coding for Machines with Task-driven Prompts
• Authors: Ruoyu Feng, Jinming Liu, Xin Jin, Xiaohan Pan, Heming Sun, Zhibo Chen
• Abstract summary: Image coding for machines (ICM) aims to compress images to support downstream AI analysis instead of human perception. Inspired by recent advances in transferring large-scale pre-trained models to downstream tasks via prompting, we explore a new ICM framework, Prompt-ICM. Our method is composed of two core designs: a) compression prompts, which are implemented as importance maps predicted by an information selector, and used to achieve different content-weighted bit allocations during compression according to different downstream tasks.
• Score: 27.119835579428816
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Image coding for machines (ICM) aims to compress images to support downstream AI analysis instead of human perception. For ICM, developing a unified codec to reduce information redundancy while empowering the compressed features to support various vision tasks is very important, which inevitably faces two core challenges: 1) How should the compression strategy be adjusted based on the downstream tasks? 2) How to well adapt the compressed features to different downstream tasks? Inspired by recent advances in transferring large-scale pre-trained models to downstream tasks via prompting, in this work, we explore a new ICM framework, termed Prompt-ICM. To address both challenges by carefully learning task-driven prompts to coordinate well the compression process and downstream analysis. Specifically, our method is composed of two core designs: a) compression prompts, which are implemented as importance maps predicted by an information selector, and used to achieve different content-weighted bit allocations during compression according to different downstream tasks; b) task-adaptive prompts, which are instantiated as a few learnable parameters specifically for tuning compressed features for the specific intelligent task. Extensive experiments demonstrate that with a single feature codec and a few extra parameters, our proposed framework could efficiently support different kinds of intelligent tasks with much higher coding efficiency.

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