UniComp: Rethinking Video Compression Through Informational Uniqueness

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Auteurs principaux: Yuan, Chao, Chen, Shimin, Lin, Minliang, Qiao, Limeng, Wan, Guanglu, Ma, Lin
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author Yuan, Chao
Chen, Shimin
Lin, Minliang
Qiao, Limeng
Wan, Guanglu
Ma, Lin
author_facet Yuan, Chao
Chen, Shimin
Lin, Minliang
Qiao, Limeng
Wan, Guanglu
Ma, Lin
contents Distinct from attention-based compression methods, this paper presents an information uniqueness driven video compression framework, termed UniComp, which aims to maximize the information fidelity of video representations under constrained computational budgets. Starting from the information-theoretic perspective, we formulate the vision compression as an optimization problem that minimizes conditional entropy (reconstruction error) between retained and full tokens. To achieve this, we introduce the notion of information uniqueness to measure intrinsic redundancy among tokens to link with reconstruction error. Based on uniqueness, we design three modules-Frame Group Fusion, Token Allocation, and Spatial Dynamic Compression-that progressively perform semantic frame grouping, adaptive resource allocation, and fine-grained spatial compression. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UniComp consistently outperforms existing compression methods in preserving essential visual tokens under limited computational budgets, highlighting the pivotal role of information uniqueness in token compression efficacy.
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spellingShingle UniComp: Rethinking Video Compression Through Informational Uniqueness
Yuan, Chao
Chen, Shimin
Lin, Minliang
Qiao, Limeng
Wan, Guanglu
Ma, Lin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Distinct from attention-based compression methods, this paper presents an information uniqueness driven video compression framework, termed UniComp, which aims to maximize the information fidelity of video representations under constrained computational budgets. Starting from the information-theoretic perspective, we formulate the vision compression as an optimization problem that minimizes conditional entropy (reconstruction error) between retained and full tokens. To achieve this, we introduce the notion of information uniqueness to measure intrinsic redundancy among tokens to link with reconstruction error. Based on uniqueness, we design three modules-Frame Group Fusion, Token Allocation, and Spatial Dynamic Compression-that progressively perform semantic frame grouping, adaptive resource allocation, and fine-grained spatial compression. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UniComp consistently outperforms existing compression methods in preserving essential visual tokens under limited computational budgets, highlighting the pivotal role of information uniqueness in token compression efficacy.
title UniComp: Rethinking Video Compression Through Informational Uniqueness
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03575