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Spatial-Channel Context-Based Entropy Modeling for End-to-end Optimized Image Compression

End-to-end optimized image compression has emerged as a disruptive technique to reduce the spatial redundancies with an improved reconstruction quality. However, existing entropy model for latent representations cannot sufficiently exploit their spatial and channel-wise correlations. In this paper, we propose a novel entropy model based on spatial-channel contexts for end-to-end optimized image compression. The proposed model jointly leverages spatial structural dependencies and channel-wise correlations to improve the probabilistic estimation of latent representations. Instead of complex autoregressive hyperprior network, shallow artificial neural networks (ANNs) incorporating 3-D masks are developed to efficiently realize the entropy model with a guarantee of causality. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves competitive rate-distortion performance and reduces model complexity in comparison to recent end-to-end optimized methods for image compression.