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AIVC: Artificial Intelligence based Video Codec (2202.04365v3)
Published 9 Feb 2022 in cs.NE and eess.SP
Abstract: This paper introduces AIVC, an end-to-end neural video codec. It is based on two conditional autoencoders MNet and CNet, for motion compensation and coding. AIVC learns to compress videos using any coding configurations through a single end-to-end rate-distortion optimization. Furthermore, it offers performance competitive with the recent video coder HEVC under several established test conditions. A comprehensive ablation study is performed to evaluate the benefits of the different modules composing AIVC. The implementation is made available at https://orange-opensource.github.io/AIVC/.