High-Efficiency Neural Video Compression via Hierarchical Predictive Learning

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Main Authors: Lu, Ming, Duan, Zhihao, Cong, Wuyang, Ding, Dandan, Zhu, Fengqing, Ma, Zhan
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author Lu, Ming
Duan, Zhihao
Cong, Wuyang
Ding, Dandan
Zhu, Fengqing
Ma, Zhan
author_facet Lu, Ming
Duan, Zhihao
Cong, Wuyang
Ding, Dandan
Zhu, Fengqing
Ma, Zhan
contents 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 but also impressive complexity efficiency, enabling real-time processing with a significantly smaller memory footprint on standard GPUs. These remarkable advancements stem from the use of hierarchical predictive coding. Each video frame is uniformly transformed into multiscale representations through hierarchical variational autoencoders. For a specific scale's feature representation of a frame, its corresponding latent residual variables are generated by referencing lower-scale spatial features from the same frame and then conditionally entropy-encoded using a probabilistic model whose parameters are predicted using same-scale temporal reference from previous frames and lower-scale spatial reference of the current frame. This feature-space processing operates from the lowest to the highest scale of each frame, completely eliminating the need for the complexity-intensive motion estimation and compensation techniques that have been standard in video codecs for decades. The hierarchical approach facilitates parallel processing, accelerating both encoding and decoding, and supports transmission-friendly progressive decoding, making it particularly advantageous for networked video applications in the presence of packet loss. Source codes will be made available.
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spellingShingle High-Efficiency Neural Video Compression via Hierarchical Predictive Learning
Lu, Ming
Duan, Zhihao
Cong, Wuyang
Ding, Dandan
Zhu, Fengqing
Ma, Zhan
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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 but also impressive complexity efficiency, enabling real-time processing with a significantly smaller memory footprint on standard GPUs. These remarkable advancements stem from the use of hierarchical predictive coding. Each video frame is uniformly transformed into multiscale representations through hierarchical variational autoencoders. For a specific scale's feature representation of a frame, its corresponding latent residual variables are generated by referencing lower-scale spatial features from the same frame and then conditionally entropy-encoded using a probabilistic model whose parameters are predicted using same-scale temporal reference from previous frames and lower-scale spatial reference of the current frame. This feature-space processing operates from the lowest to the highest scale of each frame, completely eliminating the need for the complexity-intensive motion estimation and compensation techniques that have been standard in video codecs for decades. The hierarchical approach facilitates parallel processing, accelerating both encoding and decoding, and supports transmission-friendly progressive decoding, making it particularly advantageous for networked video applications in the presence of packet loss. Source codes will be made available.
title High-Efficiency Neural Video Compression via Hierarchical Predictive Learning
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02598