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. Check-out the release history to see previous versions of Cool-chic.

Papers implemented in this repository

Date	Cool-chic version	Paper link	Key contributions
2025 July	4.1	Ladune et al,	Video coding, motion compensation
2025 Jan	4.0	Leguay et al, ISCAS	Video coding, RAFT guidance, motion cool-chic
2024 Nov	3.4	Philippe et al, ISCAS	Separable and symmetrical upsampling filters
2024 Mar	3.2	Blard et al, EUSIPCO	Fast decoder / Lighter Cool-chic image
2024 Feb	3.1	Leguay et al, DCC	1st video coding with Cool-chic
2023 Dec	3.0	Kim et al, CVPR	Quantization approximation during training
2023 July	2.0	Leguay et al, MMSP	Learnable upsampling / CNN synthesis
2022 Dec	1.0	Ladune et al, ICCV	Initial Cool-chic paper

Other papers

Some other papers have enhanced or adapted Cool-chic to particular use-cases but have not (yet?) been integrated in this repository.

Other Cool-chic-related papers

Date	Paper link	Key contributions
2025 July	Wu et al, ICML	Random synthesis parameters selecting through masking
2025 June	Zhang et al, CVPR	Lossless image coding
2025 Feb	Ameen et al,	Use Cool-chic to code a diffusion model feature space
2024 Dec	Ballé et al, CVPR	Wasserstein Distance, Saliency, Common Randomness
2024 Oct	Catania et al, ICIP	Evaluate different distortion metrics
2024 Jan	Liu et al	Faster auto-regressive module
2024 Jan	Ladune et al	Fact sheet of the Cool-chic candidate to the CLIC24 challenge
2023 Dec	Li et al, VCIP	Faster auto-regressive module
2023 Dec	Li et al, VCIP	Remove the auto-regressive probability module
2023 Nov	Zhang et al, IEEE SPL	CNN-based post filter and SGA-based quantization
2023 Sep	Le et al, ICASSP	Adapt Cool-chic to DNA image coding
2023 June	Le et al, MMSP	Multiple description to handle noisy transmission channels