arxivcs.ITcs.LGeess.SY2026-07-19
Rate-Distortion-Perception Theory: Redefining the Fundamental Limits of Information Representation
Photios A. Stavrou, Giuseppe Serra, Marios Kountouris
Classical rate-distortion (RD) theory has long established the fundamental limits of lossy compression by quantifying the minimum number of bits required to represent a source under a prescribed distortion constraint. However, widely used distortion measures such as mean-squared…