CVEGAN: A Perceptually-inspired GAN for Compressed Video Enhancement
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09190v2
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:17:53 GMT
- Title: CVEGAN: A Perceptually-inspired GAN for Compressed Video Enhancement
- Authors: Di Ma, Fan Zhang and David R. Bull
- Abstract summary: We propose a new Generative Adversarial Network for Compressed Video quality Enhancement (CVEGAN)
The CVEGAN generator benefits from the use of a novel Mul2Res block (with multiple levels of residual learning branches), an enhanced residual non-local block (ERNB) and an enhanced convolutional block attention module (ECBAM)
The training strategy has also been re-designed specifically for video compression applications, to employ a relativistic sphere GAN (ReSphereGAN) training methodology together with new perceptual loss functions.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: We propose a new Generative Adversarial Network for Compressed Video quality
Enhancement (CVEGAN). The CVEGAN generator benefits from the use of a novel
Mul2Res block (with multiple levels of residual learning branches), an enhanced
residual non-local block (ERNB) and an enhanced convolutional block attention
module (ECBAM). The ERNB has also been employed in the discriminator to improve
the representational capability. The training strategy has also been
re-designed specifically for video compression applications, to employ a
relativistic sphere GAN (ReSphereGAN) training methodology together with new
perceptual loss functions. The proposed network has been fully evaluated in the
context of two typical video compression enhancement tools: post-processing
(PP) and spatial resolution adaptation (SRA). CVEGAN has been fully integrated
into the MPEG HEVC video coding test model (HM16.20) and experimental results
demonstrate significant coding gains (up to 28% for PP and 38% for SRA compared
to the anchor) over existing state-of-the-art architectures for both coding
tools across multiple datasets.
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