Abstract: A method for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input image at a first computer system; encoding the first input training image using a first trained neural network to produce a latent representation; performing a quantization process on the latent representation to produce a quantized latent; entropy encoding the quantized latent using a probability distribution, wherein the probability distribution is defined using a tensor network; transmitting the entropy encoded quantized latent to a second computer system; entropy decoding the entropy encoded quantized latent using the probability distribution to retrieve the quantized latent; and decoding the quantized latent using a second trained neural network to produce an output image, wherein the output image is an approximation of the input training image.

Abstract: A method for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input image at a first computer system; encoding the input image using a first trained neural network to produce a latent representation; identifying one or more regions of the input image associated with high visual sensitivity; encoding the one or more regions of the input image associated with high visual sensitivity using a second trained neural network to produce one or more region latent representations; performing a quantization process on the latent representation and the one or more region latent representations; transmitting the result of the quantization process to a second computer system; decoding the result of the quantization process to produce an output image, wherein the output image is an approximation of the input image.

Abstract: A system and method for lossy image and video compression that utilizes a metanetwork to generate a set of hyperparameters necessary for an image encoding network to reconstruct the desired image from a given noise image.

Abstract: A system and method for lossy image and video compression and transmission that utilizes a neural network as a function to map a known noise image to a desired or target image, allowing the transfer only of hyperparameters of the function instead of a compressed version of the image itself. This allows the recreation of a high-quality approximation of the desired image by any system receiving the hyperparameters, provided that the receiving system possesses the same noise image and a similar neural network. The amount of data required to transfer an image of a given quality is dramatically reduced versus existing image compression technology. Being that video is simply a series of images, the application of this image compression system and method allows the transfer of video content at rates greater than existing technologies in relation to the same image quality.