Lightweight Adaptive Feature De-drifting for Compressed Image Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01724v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 13:03:44 GMT
• Title: Lightweight Adaptive Feature De-drifting for Compressed Image Classification
• Authors: Long Peng, Yang Cao, Yuejin Sun, Yang Wang
• Abstract summary: High-level vision models trained on high-quality images will suffer performance degradation when dealing with compressed images. Various learning-based JPEG artifact removal methods have been proposed to handle visual artifacts. This paper proposes a novel lightweight AFD module to boost the performance of pre-trained image classification models when facing compressed images.
• Score: 10.265991649449507
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: JPEG is a widely used compression scheme to efficiently reduce the volume of transmitted images. The artifacts appear among blocks due to the information loss, which not only affects the quality of images but also harms the subsequent high-level tasks in terms of feature drifting. High-level vision models trained on high-quality images will suffer performance degradation when dealing with compressed images, especially on mobile devices. Numerous learning-based JPEG artifact removal methods have been proposed to handle visual artifacts. However, it is not an ideal choice to use these JPEG artifact removal methods as a pre-processing for compressed image classification for the following reasons: 1. These methods are designed for human vision rather than high-level vision models; 2. These methods are not efficient enough to serve as pre-processing on resource-constrained devices. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel lightweight AFD module to boost the performance of pre-trained image classification models when facing compressed images. First, a FDE-Net is devised to generate the spatial-wise FDM in the DCT domain. Next, the estimated FDM is transmitted to the FE-Net to generate the mapping relationship between degraded features and corresponding high-quality features. A simple but effective RepConv block equipped with structural re-parameterization is utilized in FE-Net, which enriches feature representation in the training phase while maintaining efficiency in the deployment phase. After training on limited compressed images, the AFD-Module can serve as a "plug-and-play" model for pre-trained classification models to improve their performance on compressed images. Experiments demonstrate that our proposed AFD module can comprehensively improve the accuracy of the pre-trained classification models and significantly outperform the existing methods.

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