In this article we use two of the most recent compression methods based on DL, developed respectively by Ballé et al. [2] and by Toderici et al. [3]. The images compressed with these methods were evaluated by a panel of around twenty people. We also considered images compressed with “classical” techniques (HEVC-INTRA (BPG) and JPEG2000). We found that the subjective quality is often better than JPEG2000, and in any case very close. On the other hand, BPG still has better results on average, even if on certain images the method [3] is the best one.

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[1] G. Valenzise, ​​A. Purica, V. Hulusic, M. Cagnazzo. “Quality Assessment of Deep-Learning-Based Image Compression”. To appear in IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, 2018.

[2] J. Ballé, V. Laparra, and E. P. Simoncelli, “End-to-end optimized image compression,” in Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR), Toulon, France, Apr. 2017.

[3] Toderici G., Vincent D., Johnston N., Hwang S., Minnen D, Shor J., Covell M., “Full resolution image compression with recurrent neural networks,” in IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Jul. 2017, pp. 5435-5443.