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most citedCool-chic video: Learned video coding with 800 parameters

12 citations · 17 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

eess.IV2026

N-O Cool-chic: reconcile fast encoding with lightweight decoding for neural image compression

Théophile Blard, Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe +2

Overfitted image codecs achieve strong compression performance and low decoder complexity by learning a lightweight decoder for each image. Such codecs include Cool-chic, which pre…

eess.IV2026

Spatial Competition for Low-Complexity Learned Image Compression

Théophile Blard, Pierrick Philippe, Théo Ladune +2

Autoencoder-based image codecs achieve state-of-the-art compression performance but often incur high computational complexity, particularly at decoding time. This work introduces a…

eess.IV2026

Cool-chic 5.0: Faster Encoding and Inter-Feature Entropy Modeling for Overfitted Image Compression

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Pierre Jaffuer +4

Overfitted codecs compress an image by learning a decoder tailored to the content during the encoding. As such, they trade increased encoding complexity for strong compression perf…

eess.IV2025

HyperCool: Reducing Encoding Cost in Overfitted Codecs with Hypernetworks

Pep Borrell-Tatché, Till Aczel, Théo Ladune +1

Overfitted image codecs like Cool-chic achieve strong compression by tailoring lightweight models to individual images, but their encoding is slow and computationally expensive. To…

cs.CV2025

3DOF+Quantization: 3DGS quantization for large scenes with limited Degrees of Freedom

Matthieu Gendrin, Stéphane Pateux, Théo Ladune

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a major breakthrough in 3D scene reconstruction. With a number of views of a given object or scene, the algorithm trains a model composed of 3D gaus…

cs.CV2025

Adam SLAM - the last mile of camera calibration with 3DGS

Matthieu Gendrin, Stéphane Pateux, Xiaoran Jiang +2

The quality of the camera calibration is of major importance for evaluating progresses in novel view synthesis, as a 1-pixel error on the calibration has a significant impact on th…

cs.MM2025

Efficient Sub-pixel Motion Compensation in Learned Video Codecs

Théo Ladune, Thomas Leguay, Pierrick Philippe +2

Motion compensation is a key component of video codecs. Conventional codecs (HEVC and VVC) have carefully refined this coding step, with an important focus on sub-pixel motion comp…

cs.CV2025

BOGausS: Better Optimized Gaussian Splatting

Stéphane Pateux, Matthieu Gendrin, Luce Morin +2

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) proposes an efficient solution for novel view synthesis. Its framework provides fast and high-fidelity rendering. Although less complex than other solu…

eess.IV2025

Improved Encoding for Overfitted Video Codecs

Thomas Leguay, Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe +1

Overfitted neural video codecs offer a decoding complexity orders of magnitude smaller than their autoencoder counterparts. Yet, this low complexity comes at the cost of limited co…

eess.IV2024

Upsampling Improvement for Overfitted Neural Coding

Pierrick Philippe, Théo Ladune, Gordon Clare +3

Neural image compression, based on auto-encoders and overfitted representations, relies on a latent representation of the coded signal. This representation needs to be compact and…

eess.IV2024

Overfitted image coding at reduced complexity

Théophile Blard, Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe +3

Overfitted image codecs offer compelling compression performance and low decoder complexity, through the overfitting of a lightweight decoder for each image. Such codecs include Co…

eess.IV2024★ 12 cited

Cool-chic video: Learned video coding with 800 parameters

Thomas Leguay, Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe +1

We propose a lightweight learned video codec with 900 multiplications per decoded pixel and 800 parameters overall. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the neural video co…

eess.IV2024

Cool-Chic: Perceptually Tuned Low Complexity Overfitted Image Coder

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Gordon Clare +2

This paper summarises the design of the Cool-Chic candidate for the Challenge on Learned Image Compression. This candidate attempts to demonstrate that neural coding methods can le…

eess.IV2024

ED: Perceptually tuned Enhanced Compression Model

Pierrick Philippe, Théo Ladune, Stéphane Davenet +1

This paper summarises the design of the candidate ED for the Challenge on Learned Image Compression 2024. This candidate aims at providing an anchor based on conventional coding te…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

CAwa-NeRF: Instant Learning of Compression-Aware NeRF Features

Omnia Mahmoud, Théo Ladune, Matthieu Gendrin

Modeling 3D scenes by volumetric feature grids is one of the promising directions of neural approximations to improve Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Instant-NGP (INGP) introduced m…

eess.IV2023

Low-complexity Overfitted Neural Image Codec

Thomas Leguay, Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe +2

We propose a neural image codec at reduced complexity which overfits the decoder parameters to each input image. While autoencoders perform up to a million multiplications per deco…

eess.IV2022

COOL-CHIC: Coordinate-based Low Complexity Hierarchical Image Codec

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Félix Henry +2

We introduce COOL-CHIC, a Coordinate-based Low Complexity Hierarchical Image Codec. It is a learned alternative to autoencoders with 629 parameters and 680 multiplications per deco…

eess.IV2022

Artificial Intelligence based Video Codec (AIVC) for CLIC 2022

Théo Ladune, Gordon Clare, Pierrick Philippe +1

This paper presents the AIVC submission to the CLIC 2022 video track. AIVC is a fully-learned video codec based on conditional autoencoders. The flexibility of the AIVC models is l…

cs.NE2022

AIVC: Artificial Intelligence based Video Codec

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe

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…

eess.IV2021

Coding Standards as Anchors for the CVPR CLIC video track

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe

In 2021, a new track has been initiated in the Challenge for Learned Image Compression~: the video track. This category proposes to explore technologies for the compression of shor…

eess.IV2021★ 3 cited

Conditional Coding for Flexible Learned Video Compression

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Wassim Hamidouche +2

This paper introduces a novel framework for end-to-end learned video coding. Image compression is generalized through conditional coding to exploit information from reference frame…

cs.NE2021★ 1 cited

Conditional Coding and Variable Bitrate for Practical Learned Video Coding

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Wassim Hamidouche +2

This paper introduces a practical learned video codec. Conditional coding and quantization gain vectors are used to provide flexibility to a single encoder/decoder pair, which is a…

eess.IV2020

Optical Flow and Mode Selection for Learning-based Video Coding

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Wassim Hamidouche +2

This paper introduces a new method for inter-frame coding based on two complementary autoencoders: MOFNet and CodecNet. MOFNet aims at computing and conveying the Optical Flow and…

cs.NE2020

ModeNet: Mode Selection Network For Learned Video Coding

Théo Ladune, Pierrick Philippe, Wassim Hamidouche +2

In this paper, a mode selection network (ModeNet) is proposed to enhance deep learning-based video compression. Inspired by traditional video coding, ModeNet purpose is to enable c…