DCVC-MB: Neural B-Frame Video Compression using State Space Models

In this paper we propose DCVC-Mamba (DCVC-MB), a neural video codec framework for B-frame coding. Our approach incorporates an IBP frame strategy for low-delay B-frame coding, a spatio-temporal fusion model based on state-space models for bidirectional temporal prediction, and an entropy-aware skipping mechanism that selectively omits coding certain latents to reduce entropy coding times. In addition to our model contributions we also implement two inference-time strategies that enhance compression performance. Experimental evaluation shows that DCVC-MB compares favorably to existing NVCs and traditional codecs. The method demonstrates BD-rate reductions of up to 8.98% on average compared to prior neural video codecs, and improvements of up to 30.45% and 1.81% over the VTM-19.0-LDP and VTM-19.0-RA(Inter-GoP=16) benchmarks, respectively, contributing to advances in neural video compression.