High Quality Underwater Image Compression with Adaptive Correction and Codebook-based Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09986v1
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 05:52:11 GMT
• Title: High Quality Underwater Image Compression with Adaptive Correction and Codebook-based Augmentation
• Authors: Yimin Zhou, Yichong Xia, Sicheng Pan, Bin Chen, Baoyi An, Haoqian Wang, Zhi Wang, Yaowei Wang, Zikun Zhou,
• Abstract summary: We introduce HQUIC, designed to exploit underwater-image-specific features for enhanced compression efficiency.<n>HQUIC employs an ALTC module to adaptively predict the attenuation coefficients and global light information of the images.<n>It also employs a codebook as an auxiliary branch to extract the common objects within underwater images.
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• Abstract: With the increasing exploration and exploitation of the underwater world, underwater images have become a critical medium for human interaction with marine environments, driving extensive research into their efficient transmission and storage. However, contemporary underwater image compression algorithms fail to fully leverage the unique characteristics distinguishing underwater scenes from terrestrial images, resulting in suboptimal performance. To address this limitation, we introduce HQUIC, designed to exploit underwater-image-specific features for enhanced compression efficiency. HQUIC employs an ALTC module to adaptively predict the attenuation coefficients and global light information of the images, which effectively mitigates the issues caused by the differences in lighting and tone existing in underwater images. Subsequently, HQUIC employs a codebook as an auxiliary branch to extract the common objects within underwater images and enhances the performance of the main branch. Furthermore, HQUIC dynamically weights multi-scale frequency components, prioritizing information critical for distortion quality while discarding redundant details. Extensive evaluations on diverse underwater datasets demonstrate that HQUIC outperforms state-of-the-art compression methods.

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