Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

• Title  : Neural networks for video compression

• Partners : InterDigital (Ph. Bordes, F. Galpin), Inria-Rennes.

• Funding : InterDigital, ANRT.

• Period : Jan.2019-Oct.2021.

The goal of this Cifre contract is to first investigate novel optical flow estimation methods using deep neural networks. Based on the optical flow methods, the next step will be to design temporal prediction schemes based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for video compression. The methods will be assessed in the context of the VVC (Versatile Video Coding) standard.

• Title  : Compression of immersive content

• Research axis : 7.1.3

• Partners : Orange labs. (J. Jung), Inria-Rennes.

• Funding : InterDigital, ANRT.

• Period : Jan.2019-Dec.2021.

The goal of this Cifre contract is to develop novel compression methods for 6 DoF immersive video content. This implies investigating depth estimation and view synthesis methods that would be robust to quantization noise. This also implies developing the corresponding coding mode decisions based on rate-distortion criteria.