利用粗轮廓引导精修,实现高效有损轮廓编码
Decoder-Guided Lossy Contour Coding Via Anchor Refinement

- 将精细轮廓建模为解码器已有粗轮廓的几何精修
- 在失真约束下自适应跳过锚点,降低码率54.5%~66.9%
- 适合带宽受限场景下的图像超分与生成任务
物体轮廓是图像超分辨率、边缘条件生成和机器视觉等接收端任务的紧凑结构先验。当这些任务部署在带宽受限信道时,发送方传输高质量轮廓作为结构侧信息以指导重建,而为节省带宽仅发送低质量参考(如下采样图或基础层重构)。因此,解码器可免费获取粗轮廓,形成编码-解码不对称性:需传输精细轮廓,但解码端已有免费粗轮廓。现有轮廓编码器(如JBIG2、链式编码)为无损对称编码,无码率-失真控制,导致码率过高。本文提出一种从粗到精的轮廓编码框架,将高质量轮廓视为解码器可用粗轮廓的结构化几何精修。编码器沿精细轮廓提取有序锚点,并在失真约束下自适应跳过锚点;解码器则利用粗轮廓引导锚点连接。该方法实现有损轮廓压缩,具有明确的码率-失真权衡。实验表明,相比无解码端引导的方法,码率降低54.5%~66.9%,最高达JBIG2的1/5,同时保持高几何精度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Object contours serve as compact structural priors for many receiver-side vision tasks such as image super-resolution, edge-conditioned generation, and machine vision. When such tasks are deployed over a bandwidth-limited channel, the sender transmits the high-quality object contour as structural side information to guide reconstruction at the receiver, while-to save bandwidth-only a low-quality reference such as a downsampled image or base-layer reconstruction is delivered. As a result, the decoder can already extract a coarse contour from this reference at no transmission cost, creating an encoder-decoder asymmetry: the fine contour must be coded and sent, yet a free coarse version is available at the decoder. This asymmetry is ignored by existing contour codecs such as JBIG2 and chain coding, which are lossless, symmetric, and offer no rate-distortion control, leading to high bitrates. In this paper, we propose a coarse-to-fine contour coding framework that models a high-quality contour as a structured geometric refinement of the decoder-available coarse contour. The encoder extracts ordered anchors along the fine contour and performs adaptive anchor skipping under a distortion constraint. The decoder then reconstructs the contour by using the coarse prior to guide anchor connectivity. This formulation enables lossy contour compression with an explicit rate-distortion trade-off. Experiments show 54.5%-66.9% bitrate reduction over methods without decoder-side guidance, and up to 5 times savings over JBIG2, while preserving high geometric accuracy.
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