Enhanced neural video compression for cloud gaming videos with aligned frame generation

Yifan Wang, Fei Yang, Luka Murn, Juil Sock, Marc Górriz Blanch, Shuai Wan, Wei Zhang, Fuzheng Yang, Luis Herranz

Abstract: Highlights•Efficient neural video compression for cloud gaming videos utilizing camera motion.•An aligned frame generation network to improve the accuracy of motion estimation.•An enhanced latent prior for the entropy model to predict a better distribution.•Quantitative and qualitative proof of superior compression efficiency.