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IBVC: Interpolation-driven B-frame video compression

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Chenming Xu
刘美琴 (Meiqin Liu) *
姚超 (Chao Yao)
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Weisi Lin
赵耀 (Yao Zhao)
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110465delete
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Learned B-frame video compression aims to adopt bi-directional motion estimation and motion compensation (MEMC) coding for middle frame reconstruction. However, previous learned approaches often directly extend neural P-frame codecs to B-frame relying on bi-directional optical-flow estimation or video frame interpolation. They suffer from inaccurate quantized motions and inefficient motion compensation. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effective structure called Interpolation-driven B-frame Video Compression (IBVC). Our approach only involves two major operations: video frame interpolation and artifact reduction compression. IBVC introduces a bit-rate free MEMC based on interpolation, which avoids optical-flow quantization and additional compression distortions. Later, to reduce duplicate bit-rate consumption and focus on unaligned artifacts, a residual guided masking encoder is deployed to adaptively select the meaningful contexts with interpolated multi-scale dependencies. In addition, a conditional spatio-temporal decoder is proposed to eliminate location errors and artifacts instead of using MEMC coding in other methods. The experimental results on B-frame coding demonstrate that IBVC has significant improvements compared to the relevant state-of-theart methods. Meanwhile, our approach can save bit rates compared with the random access (RA) configuration of H.266 (VTM). The code will be available at https://github.com/ruhig6/IBVC.
Keywords:
Learned video compression
Video frame interpolation
Artifact reduction
Bi-directional motion compensation
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Pattern Recognition
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Beijing Jiaotong University
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Nanyang Technological University
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