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Ultra-high-resolution streaming and emerging immersive services are driving rapidly increasing wireless video traffic. However, perceptually pleasing video transmission over bandwidth-limited and latency-constrained wireless links remains…
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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,…
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