Image Compression/Decompression Solution Based on Text Prompt Generation and Regeneration

by David LOVERA – June 2024

Introduction

In the digital age, efficient storage and transmission of images are crucial due to the ever-increasing volume of visual data. Traditional image compression techniques, while effective, often face limitations in terms of compression ratios and quality retention. To address these challenges, we propose an innovative solution for image compression and decompression. This solution leverages the generation of text prompts from the image to be compressed and subsequently regenerates the same image based on the generated text prompt. By integrating and utilizing unique parameters corresponding to each image—akin to the use of cepstral coefficients in speech recognition—we ensure the fidelity and specificity of the decompressed images.

This document outlines the architecture and detailed steps of this novel approach, which combines state-of-the-art technologies in computer vision, text generation, and image synthesis. By transforming image data into descriptive text enriched with unique visual descriptors, we achieve significant compression. During decompression, these text prompts guide advanced image generation models to recreate the original image with high accuracy, retaining its essential characteristics and details.

1. Solution Architecture

A. Image Compression (Encoding)
  1. Image Analysis:
    • Use a computer vision model (e.g., a CNN model like ResNet or EfficientNet) to extract visual features from the image.
    • Extract unique descriptors of the image (e.g., visual cepstral coefficients) to capture specific and unique aspects of the image.
  2. Text Prompt Generation:
    • Use a text generation model from an image (e.g., CLIP or a Transformer model like GPT-4) to generate a detailed textual description of the image.
    • Include the unique descriptors in this description to ensure the image can be regenerated with high fidelity.
  3. Text Compression:
    • Compress the generated text using text compression techniques (e.g., gzip or more advanced compression methods).
B. Image Decompression (Decoding)
  1. Text Decompression:
    • Decompress the text to retrieve the detailed textual description.
  2. Image Regeneration:
    • Use an image generation model from text (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, or other Transformer-based image generation models) to regenerate the image from the text prompt.
    • Use the unique descriptors to fine-tune the generation and ensure the specific characteristics of the original image are accurately reproduced.

2. Detailed Steps of the Solution

Compression (Encoding)
  1. Feature Extraction:
    • Load the image and use a CNN model to extract features.
    • Convert these features into specific visual descriptors.
  2. Text Generation:
    • Pass the image and descriptors to a model like CLIP to generate a detailed textual description.
    • Example generated prompt: “A sunset over a beach with gentle waves. Orange and purple colors dominate the sky. [Descriptor: dominant color, wave texture, etc.]”
  3. Text Compression:
    • Compress the generated text using a compression method like gzip.
Decompression (Decoding)
  1. Text Decompression:
    • Decompress the text to retrieve the complete prompt.
  2. Image Generation:
    • Use a text-to-image generation model to create a new image based on the prompt.
    • Fine-tune the generation with the visual descriptors included in the text to ensure the fidelity of the regeneration.

3. Tools and Technologies

  • Vision Models: ResNet, EfficientNet for feature extraction.
  • Text Generation Models: CLIP, GPT-4.
  • Image Generation Models: DALL-E, Stable Diffusion.
  • Compression Technologies: gzip, bzip2.

4. Implementation Example

Encoding

from PIL import Image
import torch
from torchvision import models, transforms
from transformers import CLIPProcessor, CLIPModel
import gzip

# Load vision model and text generation model
vision_model = models.resnet50(pretrained=True)
clip_model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")
clip_processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32")

# Load and preprocess the image
image = Image.open("path_to_image.jpg")
preprocess = transforms.Compose([
    transforms.Resize((224, 224)),
    transforms.ToTensor(),
    transforms.Normalize(mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406], std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225]),
])
input_tensor = preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0)

# Extract visual features
with torch.no_grad():
    features = vision_model(input_tensor)

# Generate textual description
inputs = clip_processor(text=["a photo of an image"], images=image, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
outputs = clip_model(**inputs)
description = outputs.logits_per_image.argmax(dim=1).item()

# Add unique descriptors
description += " [Descriptor: ...]"

# Compress the text
compressed_text = gzip.compress(description.encode('utf-8'))

# Save the compressed text
with open("compressed_image.txt.gz", "wb") as f:
    f.write(compressed_text)

Decoding

import gzip
from transformers import DALL_E

# Load and decompress the text
with open("compressed_image.txt.gz", "rb") as f:
    compressed_text = f.read()
description = gzip.decompress(compressed_text).decode('utf-8')

# Generate the image from the text
dalle_model = DALL_E.from_pretrained("dalle-mini")
image = dalle_model.generate(description)

# Save the generated image
image.save("regenerated_image.jpg")

5. Conclusion

This solution proposes an innovative approach to image compression and decompression using state-of-the-art technologies in computer vision and text and image generation. By using unique descriptors and detailed textual prompts, it is possible to significantly compress image information and regenerate it with high fidelity.

More info at dal[at]imalogic[dot]com