Fraunhofer HHI launches a ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฝ on ๐™‡๐™š๐™–๐™ง๐™ฃ๐™š๐™™ ๐˜ฟ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™– ๐˜พ๐™ค๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™š๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ!

Led by Prof. Jona Ballรฉ, the team explores fully data-driven approaches to image and video compression, combining neural networks with models of human visual perception.

Jonaโ€™s work on ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด played a key role in the recently finalized ๐—๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—š ๐—”๐—œ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ.

๐Ÿ”— More about the new research group: https://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/press/news/new-research-group-learned-data-compression-led-by-dr-jona-balle-at-fraunhofer-hhi.html

#NeuralCompression #LearnedCompression #JPEGAI

๐Ÿ“‘ ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—ฃ๐—จ๐—•๐—Ÿ๐—œ๐—–๐—”๐—ง๐—œ๐—ข๐—กโ—

Our paper explores how #NeuralCompression can transform #EarthObservation by reducing data size while keeping critical insights & will be published in IEEE GRSM in June 2025!

Read it here: https://embed2scale.eu/download/lossy-neural-compression-for-geospatial-analytics-a-review/?wpdmdl=1573&masterkey=LCuRUVlH-A5iKh-3mHF4lK2dD9MOhdKEZMPZF3pVbV4rhnn4yu6yVi7l9WKmhXoWMz2Tu-KwVesCoYVfmJp6lvKFpwoaKekY4nbQdOjcbEo

โœ… AI-driven data compression
โœ… Self-supervised learning & foundation models
โœ… Real-world applications in EO & climate modeling

This is a step forward in making EO data workflows more efficient & scalable!

@[email protected]

๐Ÿ“ข ๐Ÿ“ข New Feature in #NeuralCompression repo: Bits-Back compression for diffusion models!
Compress image data ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ using diffusion models at an effective rate close to the (negative) ELBO.

See: https://github.com/facebookresearch/NeuralCompression/tree/main/projects/bits_back_diffusion

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NeuralCompression/projects/bits_back_diffusion at main ยท facebookresearch/NeuralCompression

A collection of tools for neural compression enthusiasts. - NeuralCompression/projects/bits_back_diffusion at main ยท facebookresearch/NeuralCompression

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