Technical Program

08:50-09:00	Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00	Keynote I Recent Developments and Perspectives in Video Coding and Its Standardization Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens-Rainer Ohm, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Moderator: Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo, Univ. of Southern California, USA
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	(Special) Oral Session W-1 Advances in Next Generation Video Coding Paper ID: 72, 70, 69, 51, 17 Chair: Dr. Wang-Q Lim, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
12:00-13:30	Lunch & Industry Talk Speaker: Prof. Homer H. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Chair: Prof. Rachel Chiang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
13:30-15:00	Oral Session W-2 Emerging Image/Video Coding and Optimization Paper ID: 85, 56, 24, 53, 74 Chair: Dr. Charles Bonnineau, InterDigital, Canada
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:30	Online Session I Standards, Video Coding, and Quality Assessment Paper ID: 77, 58, 21, 101, 97. 45, 105 Chair: PD Mathias Wien, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany
16:30-18:00	Oral Session W-3 Learned Image Coding Paper ID: 83, 9, 5, 14, 108 Chair: Prof. Seishi Takamura, Hosei University, Japan
18:30-20:00	Cocktail Reception

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09:00-10:00	Keynote II Progress and Opportunities in Video Coding from Chip Design Perspective Speaker: Dr. Kevin Jou, MediaTek, Taiwan Moderator: Prof. Chia-Wen Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	Oral Session T-1 Energy and Complexity Management in Video Coding Paper ID: 98, 6, 94, 18, 28 Chair: Dr. Angeliki Katsenou, Univ. of Bristol, UK
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	(Special) Oral Session T-2 Semantic Visual Compression towards Machine and Human Vision Paper ID: 50, 86, 67, 15, 36 Chair: Prof. Ivan Bajic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:30	Panel Learned Image and Video Coding: Hype or Hope? Moderator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joern Ostermann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
16:30-18:00	Oral Session T-3 Learned Video Coding Paper ID: 20, 29, 47, 106, 27 Chair: Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
19:00-21:00	Dinner at National Taichung Theater

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09:00-10:00	Keynote III Video Compression in the Wild: Learnings and Opportunities from a Video Streaming Company Speaker: Dr. Anne Aaron, Netflix, USA Moderator: Prof. Byeungwoo Jeon, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	(Special) Oral Session F-1 Realistic 3D Graphics Representations and Compression Paper ID: 22, 52, 75, 12, 54 Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joern Ostermann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
12:00-13:30	AOMedia Social Event – sponsored by Meta and Netflix
13:30-15:00	Oral Session F-2 Objective and Subjective Quality Assessment Paper ID: 31, 30, 93, 62, 80 Chair: Prof. Tsung-Jung Liu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:30	Online Session II Image Coding and Processing Paper ID: 48, 99, 111, 41, 112, 39 Chair: Prof. Heming Sun, Yokohama National University, Japan
16:30-18:00	Oral Session F-3 Visual Data Processing, Coding, and Applications Paper ID: 8, 60, 71, 33, 59 Chair: Christopher Rosewarne, Canon, Australia
18:00-18:30	Closing and Best Paper Award Ceremony

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10:30 – 12:00
(Special) Oral Session W-1 Advances in Next Generation Video Coding
Chair: Dr. Wang-Q Lim, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 072	Overview of Intra Template Matching Tools in ECM Po-Han Lin*, Jian-Liang Lin, Vadim Seregin, Marta Karczewicz
P-ID 070	Deep video compression with conditional feature coding Sophie Pientka*, Jonathan Pfaff, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
P-ID 069	ELIM: Extremely Low-complexity Implicit Neural Model for Super Resolution-based Coding Wenyu Wang, Junjie Wang, Dandan Ding, Urvang Joshi*, Debargha Mukherjee
P-ID 051	Simplified CNN In-Loop Filter with fixed Classifications Wang-Q Lim*, Björn Stallenberger, Jonathan Pfaff, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
P-ID 017	Encoder-Quantization-Motion-based Video Quality Metrics Yixu Chen*, Zaixi Shang, Hai Wei, Yongjun Wu, Sriram Sethuraman

13:30 – 15:00
Oral Session W-2 Emerging Image/Video Coding and Optimization
Chair: Dr. Charles Bonnineau, InterDigital, Canada
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 085	Adaptive Online Learning of Separable Path Graph Transforms for Intra-prediction Wen-Yang Lu*, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
P-ID 056	Nonlinear Transform Coding for VVC Intra Coding Michael Schäfer*, Heiko Schwarz, Jonathan Pfaff, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
P-ID 024	Low-Complexity Transform Design Using Hybrid Intra MTS Charles Bonnineau*, Saurabh Puri, Karam Naser, Tangi Poirier, Fabrice Le Leannec
P-ID 053	Bitrate Ladder Construction using Visual Information Fidelity Krishna Srikar Durbha*, Hassene Tmar, Cosmin Stejerean, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan Bovik
P-ID 074	Fast First Pass in Two-Pass Video Encoding Using Sub-Sampling Anastasia Henkel, Christian R. Helmrich, Tobias Hinz, Jens Brandenburg, Adam Wieckowski*, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand

15:30 – 16:30
Online Session I Standards, Video Coding, and Quality Assessment
Chair: PD Mathias Wien, RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 077	Standardization Status of MPEG Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression (G-PCC) Edition 2 Wei Zhang, FuZheng Yang, Yingzhan Xu, Marius Preda (Presented by Zikun Yuan*)
P-ID 058	Spatial Neighbor Information Assisted Motion Compensated Temporal Filter for Video Coding Zikun Yuan*, Weijia Zhu, Yuwen He, Li Zhang, Xiaohu Tang
P-ID 021	Template Matching-Based Subblock Motion Refinement Towards Next Generation Video Coding Lei Zhao, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang (Presented by Zikuan Yuan*)
P-ID 101	Temporal Enhanced Hybrid Neural Representation for Video Compression Jinxiang Wang*, Yangdong Liu, Shiping Zhu, Cheng Feng
P-ID 097	Low-Complexity 3D-Vision Conferencing System based on Accelerated RIFE Model Hongyue Huang*, Xilong Zhou, Hongbo Ning, Haopeng Lu, Qi Zhang, Yanpeng Liang, Wanjun Lyu, Chuanmin Jia, Xinfeng Zhang, Liuxin Zhang, Siwei Ma
P-ID 045	Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning based Bit Allocation for Gaming Video Coding Guangjie Ren*, Zizheng Liu, Zhenzhong Chen, Shan Liu
P-ID 105	A Transformer-based Intra Luma Enhancement for H.266/VVC Wenrui Lv, Hui Yuan, Congrui Fu*, Shiqi Jiang, Junyan Huo

16:30 – 18:00
Oral Session W-3 Learned Image Coding
Chair: Prof. Seishi Takamura, Hosei University, Japan
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 083	Fourier Basis Density Model Alfredo De la Fuente*, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Ballé
P-ID 009	CoCliCo: Extremely low bitrate image compression based on CLIP semantic and tiny color map Tom Bachard*, Tom Bordin, Thomas Maugey
P-ID 005	Transformer-based Learned Image Compression for Joint Decoding and Denoising Yi-Hsin Chen*, Kuan-Wei Ho, Shiau-Rung Tsai, Guan-Hsun LIN, Alessandro Gnutti, Wen-Hsiao Peng, Riccardo Leonardi
P-ID 014	Bit Rate Matching Algorithm Optimization in JPEG-AI Verification Model Panqi Jia, Ahmet Burakhan Koyuncu, Jue Mao, Ze Cui, Yi Ma, Timofey Solovyev, Alexander Karabutov, Yin Zhao, Jing Wang, Elena Alshina*, Andre Kaup, Ti Guoansheng
P-ID 108	Practical Learned Image Compression with Online Encoder Optimization Haotian Zhang*, Feihong Mei, Junqi Liao, Li Li, Houqiang Li, Dong Liu

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10:30 – 12:00
Oral Session T-1 Energy and Complexity Management in Video Coding
Chair: Dr. Angeliki Katsenou, Univ. of Bristol, UK
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 098	A Comprehensive Review of Software and Hardware Energy Efficiency of Video Decoders Matthias Kränzler*, Christian Herglotz, Andre Kaup
P-ID 006	Complexity Metrics for VVC Decoder Power Reduction in Green Metadata Christian Herglotz, Matthias Kränzler*, Rui Dai, Andre Kaup
P-ID 094	Comparative Study of Hardware and Software Power Measurements in Video Compression Angeliki Katsenou*, Xinyi Wang, Daniel Schien, David Bull
P-ID 018	Video Super-Resolution for Optimized Bitrate and Green Online Streaming Vignesh V Menon*, Prajit T Rajendran, Amritha Premkumar, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
P-ID 028	Balancing Complexity of Template Matching-based Reference Picture Padding for Video Coding Nicolas Horst*, Priyanka Das, Tim Classen, Mathias Wien

13:30 – 15:00
(Special) Oral Session T-2 Semantic Visual Compression towards Machine and Human Vision
Chair: Prof. Ivan Bajic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 050	An Effective Entropy Model for Semantic Feature Compression Tianma Shen, Ying Liu (Presented by Ivan Bajic*)
P-ID 086	Scalable Human-Machine Point Cloud Compression Mateen Ulhaq, Ivan Bajic*
P-ID 067	Improvements of the BD-rate Metrics using Monotonic Curve-fitting Methods Haiqiang Wang, Xin Zhao, Ding Ding, Xiang Pan, Zizheng Liu, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu (Presented by Fan Zhang*)
P-ID 015	Probing Image Compression For Class-Incremental Learning Justin Yang*, Zhihao Duan, Andrew Peng, Yuning Huang, Jiangpeng He, Fengqing Maggie Zhu
P-ID 036	DMOFC: Discrimination Metric-Optimized Feature Compression Changsheng Gao*, Yiheng Jiang, Li Li, Dong Liu, Feng Wu

16:30 – 18:00
Oral Session T-3 Learned Video Coding
Chair: Prof. Wen-Hsiao Peng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 020	Adaptive Variance-Threshold-Based Skip Modes for Learned Video Compression Using a Motion Complexity Criterion Fabian Brand*, Jürgen Seiler, Johannes Sauer, Elena Alshina, Andre Kaup
P-ID 029	Analysis of Neural Video Compression Networks for 360-Degree Video Coding Andy Regensky*, Fabian Brand, Andre Kaup
P-ID 047	Accelerating Learnt Video Codecs with Gradient Decay and Layer-wise Distillation Tianhao Peng*, Ge Gao, Heming Sun, Fan Zhang, David Bull
P-ID 106	GOP-based Deep Preprocessing for Video Coding Daichi Arai*, Shunsuke Iwamura, Kazuhisa Iguchi, Atsuro Ichigaya
P-ID 027	BVI-Artefact: An Artefact Detection Benchmark Dataset for Streamed Videos Chen Feng*, Duolikun Danier, Fan Zhang, Alex Mackin, Andrew Collins, David Bull

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10:30 – 12:00
(Special) Oral Session F-1 Realistic 3D Graphics Representations and Compression
Chair: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joern Ostermann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 022	Lossy video coding of V-DMC displacements Aleksei Martemianov*, Patrice Rondao Alface
P-ID 052	Dynamic Mesh Coding using  Orthogonal Atlas Projection Danillo Graziosi, Kao Hayashi*
P-ID 075	BMT-PCGC: Point Cloud Geometry Compression with Bidirectional Mask Transformer Entropy Model Monyneath Yim*, Bing-Han Wu, Jui-Chiu Chiang
P-ID 012	Tool Space Exploration of the V-PCC Patch Generation for Practical Point Cloud Encoding Louis Fréneau*, Alexandre MERCAT, Guillaume Gautier, Joose Sainio, Jarno Vanne
P-ID 054	Immersive Video Compression using Implicit Neural Representations Ho Man Kwan*, Fan Zhang, Andrew Gower, David Bull

13:30 – 15:00
Oral Session F-2 Objective and Subjective Quality Assessment
Chair: Prof. Tsung-Jung Liu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 031	Full-reference Video Quality Assessment for User Generated Content Transcoding Zihao Qi*, Chen Feng, Duolikun Danier, Fan Zhang, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, David Bull
P-ID 030	RankDVQA-mini: Knowledge Distillation-Driven Deep Video Quality Assessment Chen Feng*, Duolikun Danier, Haoran Wang, Fan Zhang, Benoit Quentin Arthur Vallade, Alex Mackin, David Bull
P-ID 093	Beyond Curves and Thresholds – Introducing Uncertainty Estimation to Satisfied User Ratios for Compressed Video Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Raimund Schatz, Patrick Le Callet*, Christian Timmerer
P-ID 062	“Discriminability–Experimental Cost” tradeoff in subjective video quality assessment of codec: DCR with EVP rating scale versus ACR–HR Andreas Pastor, Pierre David, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Lukas Krasula, Andrey Norkin, Hassene Tmar, Patrick Le Callet*
P-ID 080	A FUNQUE Approach to the Quality Assessment of Compressed HDR Videos Abhinau K Venkataramanan, Cosmin Stejerean*, Ioannis Katsavounidis, Alan Bovik

15:30 – 16:30
Online Session II Image Coding and Processing
Chair: Prof. Heming Sun, Yokohama National University, Japan
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 048	Wavelet-like Transform with Subbands Fusion in Decoupled structure for Deep Image Compression Ke Ma*, Yaojun Wu, Zhaobin Zhang, Semih Esenlik, Xiaoyan Sun, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
P-ID 099	Image Encryption and Compression Based on Reversed Diffusion Model Yilin Guo*, Jianhui Chang
P-ID 111	A Quantization Loss Compensation Network for Remote Sensing Image Compression Shao Xiang*, Jing Xiao, Mi Wang
P-ID 041	Mutual Guidance Distillation for Joint Demosaicking and Denoising of Raw Images Jingyun Liu, Han Zhu*, Zhenzhong Chen, Shan Liu
P-ID 112	Lossless JPEG Recompression for Similar Images via Frequency Domain Block Matching Hongwei Sha*, Ming Lu, Zhan Ma
P-ID 039	Swin Transformer-based In-Loop Filter for VVC Intra Coding Tong Ouyang, Xin Chen, Huairui Wang, Han Zhu*, Zhenzhong Chen

16:30 – 18:00
Oral Session F-3 Visual Data Processing, Coding, and Applications
Chair: Christopher Rosewarne, Canon, Australia
* indicates the presenter

P-ID 008	Talking Head Generation Based on 3D Morphable Facial Model Wen-Jiin Tsai*
P-ID 060	A Novel Region-Dependent Packing Method for Stereoscopic 360° Videos Using Horizontal Downsampling of Equirectangular Projection Hossein Pejman*, Stephane Coulombe, Carlos Vazquez, Mohammadreza Jamali, Ahmad Vakili
P-ID 071	Light Field View Synthesis using Deformable Convolutional Neural Networks Muhammad Zubair*, Paulo Nunes, Caroline Conti, Luis Ducla Soares
P-ID 033	Compressing Deep Image Super-resolution Models Yuxuan Jiang*, Jakub Nawała, Fan Zhang, David Bull
P-ID 059	Evaluation of Low Complexity Enhancement Video Codec (LCEVC) with HEVC and VVC on 4K Content Olena Chubach*, Ching-Yeh Chen