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In video coding, in-loop filters are applied on reconstructed video frames to enhance their perceptual quality, before storing the frames for output. Conventional in-loop filters are obtained by hand-crafted methods. Recently, learned…
This paper explores the application of enhancement filtering techniques in neural video compression. Specifically, we categorize these techniques into in-loop contextual filtering and out-of-loop reconstruction enhancement based on whether…
There has been a growing trend in compressing and transmitting videos from terminals for machine vision tasks. Nevertheless, most video coding optimization method focus on minimizing distortion according to human perceptual metrics,…
Recent advances in deep learning have markedly improved the quality of visual-attention modelling. In this work we apply these advances to video compression. We propose a compression method that uses a saliency model to adaptively compress…
High efficiency video coding (HEVC) has brought outperforming efficiency for video compression. To reduce the compression artifacts of HEVC, we propose a DenseNet based approach as the in-loop filter of HEVC, which leverages multiple…
Scaling and lossy coding are widely used in video transmission and storage. Previous methods for enhancing the resolution of such videos often ignore the inherent interference between resolution loss and compression artifacts, which…
Video compression relies heavily on exploiting the temporal redundancy between video frames, which is usually achieved by estimating and using the motion information. The motion information is represented as optical flows in most of the…
We present a new algorithm for video coding, learned end-to-end for the low-latency mode. In this setting, our approach outperforms all existing video codecs across nearly the entire bitrate range. To our knowledge, this is the first…
We introduce a cutting-edge video compression framework tailored for the age of ubiquitous video data, uniquely designed to serve machine learning applications. Unlike traditional compression methods that prioritize human visual perception,…
Classical video coding for satisfying humans as the final user is a widely investigated field of studies for visual content, and common video codecs are all optimized for the human visual system (HVS). But are the assumptions and…
The computer vision and image processing research community has been involved in standardizing video data communications for the past many decades, leading to standards such as AVC, HEVC, VVC, AV1, AV2, etc. However, recent groundbreaking…
Learning-based video compression has been extensively studied over the past years, but it still has limitations in adapting to various motion patterns and entropy models. In this paper, we propose multi-mode video compression (MMVC), a…
The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were proposed in the loop of…
Video compression is indispensable to most video analysis systems. Despite saving transportation bandwidth, it also deteriorates downstream video understanding tasks, especially at low-bitrate settings. To systematically investigate this…
The demand for efficient multi-rate encoding techniques has surged with the increasing prevalence of ultra-high-definition (UHD) video content, particularly in adaptive streaming scenarios where a single video must be encoded at multiple…
Nowadays, real-time video communication over the internet through video conferencing applications has become an invaluable tool in everyone's professional and personal life. This trend underlines the need for video coding algorithms that…
Video coding is a critical step in all popular methods of streaming video. Marked progress has been made in video quality, compression, and computational efficiency. Recently, there has been an interest in finding ways to apply techniques…
Efficient dissemination of videos is an important problem for mobile telecom carriers. In this paper, to facilitate massive video dissemination, we study joint caching and multicasting for multi-quality videos encoded using two video…
Video compression has always been a popular research area, where many traditional and deep video compression methods have been proposed. These methods typically rely on signal prediction theory to enhance compression performance by…
In recent years, video compression techniques have been significantly challenged by the rapidly increased demands associated with high quality and immersive video content. Among various compression tools, post-processing can be applied on…