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Versatile Video Coding (VVC), as the latest standard, significantly improves the coding efficiency over its ancestor standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), but at the expense of sharply increased complexity. In VVC, the quad-tree…
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…
Optimized for pixel fidelity metrics, images compressed by existing image codec are facing systematic challenges when used for visual analysis tasks, especially under low-bitrate coding. This paper proposes a visual analysis-motivated…
For the latest video coding standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the encoding complexity is much higher than previous video coding standards to achieve a better coding efficiency, especially for intra coding. The complexity becomes a…
The ever-growing multimedia traffic has underscored the importance of effective multimedia codecs. Among them, the up-to-date lossy video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), has been attracting attentions of video coding…
With the increasing number of images and videos consumed by computer vision algorithms, compression methods are evolving to consider both perceptual quality and performance in downstream tasks. Traditional codecs can tackle this problem by…
Rate-Distortion Optimized Quantization (RDOQ) has played an important role in the coding performance of recent video compression standards such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9 and AV1. This scheme yields significant reductions in bit-rate at…
Many images and videos are primarily processed by computer vision algorithms, involving only occasional human inspection. When this content requires compression before processing, e.g., in distributed applications, coding methods must…
In intra coding, Rate Distortion Optimization (RDO) is performed to achieve the optimal intra mode from a pre-defined candidate list. The optimal intra mode is also required to be encoded and transmitted to the decoder side besides the…
Among the new techniques of Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QT+MTT) block structure yields significant coding gains by providing more flexible block partitioning patterns. However, the recursive…
The rapid growth of visual data under stringent storage and bandwidth constraints makes extremely low-bitrate image compression increasingly important. While Vector Quantization (VQ) offers strong structural fidelity, existing methods lack…
Despite a short history, neural image codecs have been shown to surpass classical image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, most of them suffer from significantly longer decoding times, which hinders the practical…
Rate-distortion optimization (RDO) of codecs, where distortion is quantified by the mean-square error, has been a standard practice in image/video compression over the years. RDO serves well for optimization of codec performance for…
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) significantly reduces bit-rates over the proceeding H.264 standard but at the expense of extremely high encoding complexity. In HEVC, the quad-tree partition of coding unit (CU) consumes a large…
High efficiency video coding (HEVC) suffers high encoding computational complexity, partly attributed to the rate-distortion optimization quad-tree search in CU partition decision. Therefore, we propose a novel two-stage CU partition…
In this paper, we propose a new fast CU partition algorithm for VVC intra coding based on cross-block difference. This difference is measured by the gradient and the content of sub-blocks obtained from partition and is employed to guide the…
Neural video compression (NVC) has demonstrated superior compression efficiency, yet effective rate control remains a significant challenge due to complex temporal dependencies. Existing rate control schemes typically leverage frame content…
Even though rate-distortion optimization is a crucial part of traditional image and video compression, not many approaches exist which transfer this concept to end-to-end-trained image compression. Most frameworks contain static compression…
The next-generation Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard introduces a new Multi-Type Tree (MTT) block partitioning structure that supports Binary-Tree (BT) and Ternary-Tree (TT) splits in both vertical and horizontal directions. This new…
The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard has been recently finalized by the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET). Compared to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, VVC offers about 50% compression efficiency gain, in terms of…