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Geometric Transformation-Embedded Mamba for Learned Video Compression

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-10 v1

Abstract

Although learned video compression methods have exhibited outstanding performance, most of them typically follow a hybrid coding paradigm that requires explicit motion estimation and compensation, resulting in a complex solution for video compression. In contrast, we introduce a streamlined yet effective video compression framework founded on a direct transform strategy, i.e., nonlinear transform, quantization, and entropy coding. We first develop a cascaded Mamba module (CMM) with different embedded geometric transformations to effectively explore both long-range spatial and temporal dependencies. To improve local spatial representation, we introduce a locality refinement feed-forward network (LRFFN) that incorporates a hybrid convolution block based on difference convolutions. We integrate the proposed CMM and LRFFN into the encoder and decoder of our compression framework. Moreover, we present a conditional channel-wise entropy model that effectively utilizes conditional temporal priors to accurately estimate the probability distributions of current latent features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art video compression approaches in terms of perceptual quality and temporal consistency under low-bitrate constraints. Our source codes and models will be available at https://github.com/cshw2021/GTEM-LVC.

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@article{arxiv.2603.07912,
  title  = {Geometric Transformation-Embedded Mamba for Learned Video Compression},
  author = {Hao Wei and Yanhui Zhou and Chenyang Ge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07912},
  year   = {2026}
}
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