How Tencent’s TNC Neural Codec Won 2025 Image & Video Compression Challenges
At the end of 2025, Tencent’s Shannon Lab’s neural codec TNC achieved top rankings in both the VCIP low‑complexity end‑to‑end image compression contest and the PCS high‑compression intelligent image compression challenge, demonstrating superior PSNR gains, low decoding complexity, and innovative VAE‑INR architecture across image and video tracks.
