Lossy GIF Compression Using Deep Intrinsic Parameterization

October 2019

Lossy GIF Compression Using Deep Intrinsic Parameterization

Authors:

Anuj Pahuja and Simon Lucey

Abstract:

With billions of animated GIFs being shared and viewed every day, it has become imperative for GIF hosting websites to serve content with minimal lag. To cater to the ever-decreasing attention span of a wide audience with different connectivity issues, it makes sense to suitably compress GIFs during transmission. We present a unique and interpretable approach to lossily compress GIFs or any temporal sequence of frames through a CNN based image parameterization technique and a simple scalar quantization scheme. Contrary to learned compression techniques, our approach is instance-specific and self-supervised.
@workshop{Pahuja-2019-125560,
author = {Anuj Pahuja And Simon Lucey},
title = {Lossy GIF Compression Using Deep Intrinsic Parameterization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICCV '19 Workshop},
year = {2019},
month = {October},
pages = {4581 - 4583},
}
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