
Image analysis based on machine vision is hugely manipulated in the smart industry. Good-quality images are required for outstanding machine analysis results, but handling high-definition images could be problematic in a constrained environment such as a low-bandwidth network or low-capacity storage. Lowering the image resolution might be a straightforward solution for reducing image data, but it would cause much information loss, leading to the deterioration of machine vision. Moreover, human supervision could be necessary for a contingency that machine vision cannot control. Therefore, an innovative image compression method considering machine and human vision is required; more compression efficiency than the state-of-the-art codec, praiseworthy machine vision performance, and human-recognizable quality. In this paper, we propose Versatile video coding(VVC) based image compression for hybrid vision, i.e., machine vision and human vision. Our work provides a coding tree unit(CTU) level image compression with dual quantization parameters (QPs) according to the quantization parameter map and the saliency extracted by the object detection network; in the salient region, the proposed method maintains high quality with low QP but degrades the quality with high QP in the non-salient region. Compared with VVC, the proposed compression method achieves a bitrate reduction of up to 25.5% in machine vision tasks, proving more compression efficiency and still admirable machine vision performance. From the perspective of human vision, the proposed method provides human-perceptible image quality, preserving acceptable objective quality values.
Video coding for machines, machine vision, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, hybrid vision, versatile video coding, TK1-9971
Video coding for machines, machine vision, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, hybrid vision, versatile video coding, TK1-9971
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