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Inter-Prediction is used effectively in multiple standards, including H.264 and HEVC (also known as H.265). It leverages correlation between blocks of consecutive video frames in order to perform motion compensation and thus predict block…
The enhanced Deep Hierarchical Video Compression-DHVC 2.0-has been introduced. This single-model neural video codec operates across a broad range of bitrates, delivering not only superior compression performance to representative methods…
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Deep learning-based video compression is a challenging task, and many previous state-of-the-art learning-based video codecs use optical flows to exploit the temporal correlation between successive frames and then compress the residual…
Autoencoder-based image codecs achieve state-of-the-art compression performance but often incur high computational complexity, particularly at decoding time. This work introduces a low-complexity learned image compression framework based on…
Well-trained generative neural networks (GNN) are very efficient at compressing visual information for static images in their learned parameters but not as efficient as inter- and intra-prediction for most video content. However, for…
The growing needs for high-quality video applications have resulted in a lot of studies and developments in video signal coding. This chapter presents some advanced techniques in enhancing the rate-distortion performance of the block-based…
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Most of the existing neural video compression methods adopt the predictive coding framework, which first generates the predicted frame and then encodes its residue with the current frame. However, as for compression ratio, predictive coding…
In learning-based approaches to image compression, codecs are developed by optimizing a computational model to minimize a rate-distortion objective. Currently, the most effective learned image codecs take the form of an entropy-constrained…
In Learned Video Compression (LVC), improving inter prediction, such as enhancing temporal context mining and mitigating accumulated errors, is crucial for boosting rate-distortion performance. Existing LVCs mainly focus on mining the…
Video prediction is a fundamental task for various downstream applications, including robotics and world modeling. Although general video prediction models have achieved remarkable performance in standard scenarios, occlusion is still an…
The proliferation of high resolution videos posts great storage and bandwidth pressure on cloud video services, driving the development of next-generation video codecs. Despite great progress made in neural video coding, existing approaches…
Inter prediction is an important module in video coding for temporal redundancy removal, where similar reference blocks are searched from previously coded frames and employed to predict the block to be coded. Although traditional video…
A key challenge in self-supervised video representation learning is how to effectively capture motion information besides context bias. While most existing works implicitly achieve this with video-specific pretext tasks (e.g., predicting…
Recent advances in end-to-end video compression have shown promising results owing to their unified end-to-end learning optimization. However, such generalized frameworks often lack content-specific adaptation, leading to suboptimal…
Standardized lossy video coding is at the core of almost all real-world video processing pipelines. Rate control is used to enable standard codecs to adapt to different network bandwidth conditions or storage constraints. However, standard…
Video coding algorithms encode and decode an entire video frame while feature coding techniques only preserve and communicate the most critical information needed for a given application. This is because video coding targets human…
Compression methods based on inpainting are an evolving alternative to classical transform-based codecs for still images. Attempts to apply these ideas to video compression are rare, since reaching real-time performance is very challenging.…
The problem of video frame prediction has received much interest due to its relevance to many computer vision applications such as autonomous vehicles or robotics. Supervised methods for video frame prediction rely on labeled data, which…