Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression

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Hauptverfasser: Bilican, Ahmet, Yılmaz, M. Akın, Tekalp, A. Murat
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author Bilican, Ahmet
Yılmaz, M. Akın
Tekalp, A. Murat
author_facet Bilican, Ahmet
Yılmaz, M. Akın
Tekalp, A. Murat
contents While the BD-rate performance of recent learned video codec models in both low-delay and random-access modes exceed that of respective modes of traditional codecs on average over common benchmarks, the performance improvements for individual videos with complex/large motions is much smaller compared to scenes with simple motion. This is related to the inability of a learned encoder model to generalize to motion vector ranges that have not been seen in the training set, which causes loss of performance in both coding of flow fields as well as frame prediction and coding. As a remedy, we propose a generic (model-agnostic) framework to control the scale of motion vectors in a scene during inference (encoding) to approximately match the range of motion vectors in the test and training videos by adaptively downsampling frames. This results in down-scaled motion vectors enabling: i) better flow estimation; hence, frame prediction and ii) more efficient flow compression. We show that the proposed framework for content-adaptive inference improves the BD-rate performance of already state-of-the-art low-delay video codec DCVC-FM by up to 41\% on individual videos without any model fine tuning. We present ablation studies to show measures of motion and scene complexity can be used to predict the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
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spellingShingle Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
Bilican, Ahmet
Yılmaz, M. Akın
Tekalp, A. Murat
Image and Video Processing
While the BD-rate performance of recent learned video codec models in both low-delay and random-access modes exceed that of respective modes of traditional codecs on average over common benchmarks, the performance improvements for individual videos with complex/large motions is much smaller compared to scenes with simple motion. This is related to the inability of a learned encoder model to generalize to motion vector ranges that have not been seen in the training set, which causes loss of performance in both coding of flow fields as well as frame prediction and coding. As a remedy, we propose a generic (model-agnostic) framework to control the scale of motion vectors in a scene during inference (encoding) to approximately match the range of motion vectors in the test and training videos by adaptively downsampling frames. This results in down-scaled motion vectors enabling: i) better flow estimation; hence, frame prediction and ii) more efficient flow compression. We show that the proposed framework for content-adaptive inference improves the BD-rate performance of already state-of-the-art low-delay video codec DCVC-FM by up to 41\% on individual videos without any model fine tuning. We present ablation studies to show measures of motion and scene complexity can be used to predict the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
title Content-Adaptive Inference for State-of-the-art Learned Video Compression
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07283