JPEG COMPLIANT COMPRESSION FOR DNN VISION

Conventional image compression techniques are mostly developed for the human visual system. However, with the extensive use of deep neural networks (DNNs), more and more images will be consumed by DNN-based intelligent machines, which makes it crucial to develop image compression techniques customized for DNN vision while being JPEG compliant. In this paper, we first propose a new distortion measure, dubbed the sensitivity weighted error (SWE). Then, we develop OptS, a DNN-oriented compression algorithm with full JPEG compatibility, which designs optimal quantization tables for DNN models based on SWE. To test the performance of our algorithm, experiments of image classification are conducted on the ImageNet dataset for two prevailing DNN models. Results demonstrate that our algorithm achieves better rate-accuracy (R-A) performance than the default JPEG. For some DNN model, the compression ratio of our algorithm can reach 8.3×, reducing the compression rate (bits per pixel, bpp) of the default JPEG by 57.4% with no accuracy loss. Our source code is available at https://github.com/zkxufo/OptS.git.