The paper introduces Event-guided Neural Video Codec (ENVC), a neural video compression method that incorporates event streams—capturing brightness changes between frames—into both motion and frame coding stages. By using event-guided motion priors and event-conditioned predictors, ENVC improves RGB compression efficiency, achieving significant BD-rate savings across six benchmarks. The authors also synthesize paired RGB-event data for training and demonstrate that the gains persist on large-motion sequences, highlighting events as a valuable complementary modality for video coding.
By Jiyun Kong, Jungwoo Kim, Enes Eray Demirtas, Touradj Ebrahimi, Jong-Seok Lee
The paper introduces VoRTeC, a video compression framework that leverages a foundational flow model to encode latent video representations compactly and predict their positions along flow trajectories. By integrating multi‑scale priors and avoiding access to flow‑matching network parameters, VoRTeC achieves one‑step decoding with high perceptual fidelity, while maintaining temporal consistency through tail‑frame reuse and prior caching. Experiments show a 58% reduction in bit consumption compared to prior diffusion‑based methods and a decoding speed increase ranging from 3 to 197 times, reaching 13 FPS at 720p and 32 FPS at 480p.
By Yichong Xia, Qinhong Wu, Qinhong Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Zeyuan Chen, Haoqian Wang
arXiv:2603.17546v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Perceptual video compression leverages generative priors to reconstruct realistic textures and motions at low bitrates. However, existing perceptua...
By Daowen Li, Ruixiao Dong, Kai Li, Ying Chen, Ding Ding, Li Li
The paper introduces a resolution‑flexible decoder for hybrid neural video representations, using uniform 2× upsampling stages that adapt to any target resolution by tracing spatial sizes backward from the final output. After each stage, feature maps are aligned to the desired size via minimal padding or cropping, and the process is guided by intermediate reconstruction supervision and a difficulty‑aware frame sampling strategy. Experiments on the UVG dataset demonstrate that this framework improves reconstruction quality compared to existing NVR baselines.
By Taiga Hayami, Masaya Takabe, Hiroshi Watanabe
LRConv-NeRV introduces low‑rank separable convolutions into the NeRV neural video decoder, replacing selected dense 3x3 layers to reduce computational load and memory usage. By applying low‑rank factorization progressively from the largest to earlier decoder stages, the method offers controllable trade‑offs between reconstruction quality and efficiency. Experiments show that applying LRConv only to the final decoder stage cuts decoder complexity by 68% and model size by 9.3% with negligible quality loss, while INT8 quantization preserves performance close to the dense baseline.
By Tamer Shanableh
Latent video generation relies on autoencoders to define a compact space in which generative models operate. Although video autoencoder architectures have evolved substantially, their latent spaces are still optimized primarily for pixel-level reconstruction and provide limited high-level semantic organization.