# FVC: A New Framework towards Deep Video Compression in Feature Space

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09600 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.09600/

## Key facts

- Cited by 153 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 28 of its 42 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 20 May 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 28 of 28)

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- [Deformable Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06211/) (2017)
- [Variational image compression with a scale hyperprior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.01436/) (2018)
- [End-to-end Optimized Image Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.01704/) (2016)
- [Joint Autoregressive and Hierarchical Priors for Learned Image Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.02736/) (2018)
- [Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.09078/) (2017)
- [EDVR: Video Restoration with Enhanced Deformable Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02716/) (2019)
- [DVC: An End-to-end Deep Video Compression Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.00101/) (2018)
- [Lossy Image Compression with Compressive Autoencoders](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.00395/) (2017)
- [TDAN: Temporally Deformable Alignment Network for Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02898/) (2018)
- [Generative Adversarial Networks for Extreme Learned Image Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02958/) (2018)
- [Full Resolution Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.05148/) (2016)
- [Variable Rate Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.06085/) (2015)
- [Video Compression through Image Interpolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.06919/) (2018)
- [M-LVC: Multiple Frames Prediction for Learned Video Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.10290/) (2020)
- [Video Compression With Rate-Distortion Autoencoders](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.05717/) (2019)
- [Improved Lossy Image Compression with Priming and Spatially Adaptive Bit Rates for Recurrent Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.10114/) (2017)
- [Learning for Video Compression with Hierarchical Quality and Recurrent Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.01966/) (2020)
- [Learned Video Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.06981/) (2018)
- [Content Adaptive and Error Propagation Aware Deep Video Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.11282/) (2020)
- [Learning for Video Compression with Recurrent Auto-Encoder and Recurrent Probability Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.13560/) (2020)
- [Improving Deep Video Compression by Resolution-adaptive Flow Coding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.05982/) (2020)
- [Learning Image and Video Compression through Spatial-Temporal Energy Compaction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.09683/) (2019)
- [Deep Generative Video Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.02845/) (2018)
- [Non-Local ConvLSTM for Video Compression Artifact Reduction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.12286/) (2019)
- [Learned Video Compression with Feature-level Residuals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.08283/) (2020)
- [Utilising Low Complexity CNNs to Lift Non-Local Redundancies in Video Coding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.08737/) (2019)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Learning based video compression attracts increasing attention in the past few years. The previous hybrid coding approaches rely on pixel space operations to reduce spatial and temporal redundancy, which may suffer from inaccurate motion estimation or less effective motion compensation. In this work, we propose a feature-space video coding network (FVC) by performing all major operations (i.e., motion estimation, motion compression, motion compensation and residual compression) in the feature space. Specifically, in the proposed deformable compensation module, we first apply motion estimation in the feature space to produce motion information (i.e., the offset maps), which will be compressed by using the auto-encoder style network. Then we perform motion compensation by using deformable convolution and generate the predicted feature. After that, we compress the residual feature between the feature from the current frame and the predicted feature from our deformable compensation module. For better frame reconstruction, the reference features from multiple previous reconstructed frames are also fused by using the non-local attention mechanism in the multi-frame feature fusion module. Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves the state-of-the-art performance on four benchmark datasets including HEVC, UVG, VTL and MCL-JCV.