Cool-chic literature#
There are several published papers describing and enhancing Cool-chic. Reading some of these papers might help understanding how Cool-chic works.
Used in this repo#
This repository is based on several papers successively enhancing Cool-chic.
2024
February: Cool-chic video: Learned video coding with 800 parameters, Leguay et al
The inter-frame coding scheme used in the current main branch
git clone https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Cool-Chic.git
2023
December: C3: High-performance and low-complexity neural compression from a single image or video, Kim et al
Some improvements related to image coding have been integrated in Cool-chic 3.0
git clone --branch v3.0 https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Cool-Chic.git
July: Low-complexity Overfitted Neural Image Codec, Leguay et al.
This constitutes Cool-chic 2
git clone --branch v2.0 https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Cool-Chic.git
2022
December: COOL-CHIC: Coordinate-based Low Complexity Hierarchical Image Codec, Ladune et al.
This constitutes Cool-chic 1
git clone --branch v1.0 https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/Cool-Chic.git
Other papers#
Some other papers have enhanced or adapted Cool-chic to particular use-cases but have not (yet?) been integrated in this repository.
2024
January: Fast Implicit Neural Representation Image Codec in Resource-limited Devices, Liu et al.
Faster Cool-chic decoder
January: Cool-Chic: Perceptually Tuned Low Complexity Overfitted Image Coder, Ladune et al
Cool-chic-based submission to the CLIC24 challenge
2023
December: Hybrid Implicit Neural Image Compression with Subpixel Context Model and Iterative Pruner, Li et al.
Speed-up cool-chic decoding by removing the auto-regressive probability model
September: Implicit Neural Multiple Description for DNA-based data storage, Le et al.
Adapt Cool-chic to encode/decode image on DNA instead of binary files
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Add multiple description into Cool-chic to cope with noisy transmission channels