
Cool-chic (pronounced /kul ʃik/ as in French 🥖🧀🍷) is a low-complexity neural image and video codec based on overfitting. It offers image coding performance on par with H.266/VVC for 1000 multiplications per decoded pixel, allowing for fast CPU-only decoding.
Great coding performance
Cool-chic offers visual quality similar to H.266/VVC with 30% less rate
Lightweight decoder
Cool-chic decoder only computes 1000 multiplications per decoded pixel
Fast CPU-only decoder
Decode a 1280x720 image in 100 ms on CPU with our decoder written in C
I/O format
Encode PNG, PPM and YUV 420 & 444 files with a bitdepth of 8 to 16 bits.
