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You've Seen Enough: Quality-Constrained Image Coding for Machines

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 20, 2026 · UTC

Visual data is increasingly consumed by machine-vision systems rather than by human observers. Image Coding for Machines (ICM) compresses images assuming the main observer is a computer vision application and that the human observer needs to inspect or validate the decisions. Inspired by just-noticeable distortion, which sets the quality to the just-acceptable level for human observers, we aim to cap the human-observed quality at a desired level, with the goal of using the remaining coding capacity to improve the machine performance. We recast joint compression-segmentation training as a const

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