Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

CIFRE contract with InterDigital on neural networks for video compression

Participants : Xuan Hien Pham, Christine Guillemot.

• 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.

CIFRE contract with Orange labs. on compression of immersive content

Participants : Patrick Garus, Christine Guillemot, Thomas Maugey.

• 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.