Invertible Energy-Aware Images

Displaying video content requires significant amounts of energy. In face of the energy crisis and climate emergency, we propose a new approach to produce energy-aware images. The purpose of such images is to consume less energy when displayed onscreen while maximizing the quality of experience. A new invertible neural network called Invertible Energy-Aware Network (InvEAN) is proposed to produce invertible energy-aware images, allowing to reduce the energy consumption of display devices and offering the possibility to recover the original image if required. Experimental results show that the InvEAN network outperforms two existing methods over three datasets.