A Study on the Effect of Color Spaces in Learned Image Compression
Srivatsa Prativadibhayankaram, Mahadev Prasad Panda, J\"urgen Seiler,, Thomas Richter, Heiko Sparenberg, Siegfried F\"o{\ss}el, Andr\'e Kaup

TL;DR
This paper compares the impact of different color spaces on learned image compression, showing that RGB achieves the best overall performance but with higher complexity.
Contribution
It introduces a systematic comparison of YUV, LAB, and RGB color spaces in learned image codecs, highlighting their effects on compression efficiency.
Findings
YUV outperforms LAB in MS-SSIM with 7.5% BD-BR gain.
LAB outperforms YUV in CIEDE2000 with 8% BD-BR gain.
RGB achieves the best overall performance with 13.14% MS-SSIM and 17.96% CIEDE2000 gains.
Abstract
In this work, we present a comparison between color spaces namely YUV, LAB, RGB and their effect on learned image compression. For this we use the structure and color based learned image codec (SLIC) from our prior work, which consists of two branches - one for the luminance component (Y or L) and another for chrominance components (UV or AB). However, for the RGB variant we input all 3 channels in a single branch, similar to most learned image codecs operating in RGB. The models are trained for multiple bitrate configurations in each color space. We report the findings from our experiments by evaluating them on various datasets and compare the results to state-of-the-art image codecs. The YUV model performs better than the LAB variant in terms of MS-SSIM with a Bj{\o}ntegaard delta bitrate (BD-BR) gain of 7.5\% using VTM intra-coding mode as the baseline. Whereas the LAB variant has a…
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TopicsEducation and Learning Interventions · Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior · Innovation in Digital Healthcare Systems
