# OpenDVC: An Open Source Implementation of the DVC Video Compression Method

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15862 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.15862/

## Key facts

- Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 29 Jun 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [Perceptual Learned Video Compression with Recurrent Conditional GAN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03082/) (2021)
- [Advancing Learned Video Compression with In-loop Frame Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.07004/) (2022)
- [DVC-P: Deep Video Compression with Perceptual Optimizations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.10849/) (2021)
- [IBVC: Interpolation-driven B-frame Video Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.13835/) (2023)
- [Distilled Low Rank Neural Radiance Field with Quantization for Light Field Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.00164/) (2022)
- [OpenDCVCs: A PyTorch Open Source Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the DCVC series Video Codecs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.04491/) (2025)
- [Learning to Compress Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Captured Video: Benchmark and Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.06115/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce an open source Tensorflow implementation of the Deep Video Compression (DVC) method in this technical report. DVC is the first end-to-end optimized learned video compression method, achieving better MS-SSIM performance than the Low-Delay P (LDP) very fast setting of x265 and comparable PSNR performance with x265 (LDP very fast). At the time of writing this report, several learned video compression methods are superior to DVC, but currently none of them provides open source codes. We hope that our OpenDVC codes are able to provide a useful model for further development, and facilitate future researches on learned video compression. Different from the original DVC, which is only optimized for PSNR, we release not only the PSNR-optimized re-implementation, denoted by OpenDVC (PSNR), but also the MS-SSIM-optimized model OpenDVC (MS-SSIM). Our OpenDVC (MS-SSIM) model provides a more convincing baseline for MS-SSIM optimized methods, which can only compare with the PSNR optimized DVC in the past. The OpenDVC source codes and pre-trained models are publicly released at https://github.com/RenYang-home/OpenDVC.