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Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 17, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

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.

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How Tencent’s TNC Neural Codec Won 2025 Image & Video Compression Challenges
Tencent Architect
Tencent Architect
Dec 15, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How Tencent’s Neural Codec Dominated 2025 AI Compression Challenges

In December 2025, Tencent Shannon Lab’s neural codec TNC won both the VCIP low‑complexity end‑to‑end image compression contest and the PCS high‑compression intelligent compression challenge, showcasing superior quality at equal bitrates across image and video tracks and highlighting the lab’s AI‑driven advances in video‑image coding.

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How Tencent’s Neural Codec Dominated 2025 AI Compression Challenges
Architect
Architect
Oct 4, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI-Driven Digital Watermarks Achieve Robust, Invisible Protection for Video

This article examines the challenges of video copyright protection, critiques traditional visible and invisible watermark methods, and presents a deep‑learning based AI digital watermark solution that balances invisibility and robustness, detailing its network architecture, degradation layer, loss functions, block encoding, anchor calibration, and large‑scale experimental results.

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How AI-Driven Digital Watermarks Achieve Robust, Invisible Protection for Video
OPPO Kernel Craftsman
OPPO Kernel Craftsman
Jun 16, 2023 · Fundamentals

Screen Content Coding (SCC) and HEVC‑SCC Tools: Principles and Performance Gains

Screen Content Coding (SCC) extends HEVC with four specialized tools—Intra Block Copy, Palette Mode, Adaptive Color Transform, and Adaptive Motion Vector Resolution—yielding typical BD‑Rate reductions of up to 19 % for screen‑rich video, though at increased encoder complexity, and is now widely used in cloud environments while mobile adoption remains limited.

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Screen Content Coding (SCC) and HEVC‑SCC Tools: Principles and Performance Gains
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
May 15, 2023 · Industry Insights

How AI‑Driven Perceptual Encoding Cuts Video Bandwidth by Up to 60% While Boosting Quality

This article examines the technical background, core AI‑assisted perceptual encoding methods, practical implementations, and performance results of Baidu's intelligent video cloud, showing how content‑aware preprocessing, ROI‑based bitrate allocation, and AI‑enhanced super‑resolution can dramatically reduce bandwidth consumption while improving user experience.

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How AI‑Driven Perceptual Encoding Cuts Video Bandwidth by Up to 60% While Boosting Quality
Baidu Intelligent Cloud Tech Hub
Baidu Intelligent Cloud Tech Hub
Apr 24, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI‑Powered Perceptual Encoding Cuts Bandwidth While Boosting Video Quality

This article explains how AI‑assisted perceptual video encoding techniques, such as ROI‑based bitrate allocation and content‑aware preprocessing, dramatically reduce bitrate while improving user experience, and describes Baidu Cloud’s "Smart Perceptual Ultra‑Clear" solutions, practical deployments, and future trends in intelligent video codecs.

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How AI‑Powered Perceptual Encoding Cuts Bandwidth While Boosting Video Quality
Bilibili Tech
Bilibili Tech
Sep 20, 2022 · Fundamentals

Common Color Representation Methods and Image/Video Fundamentals

The article explains common color models such as grayscale, RGB and YUV, describes image fundamentals like resolution and aspect ratio, outlines typical storage formats (RGB, YUV420P, NV12/NV21) and their bit‑depth considerations, and introduces video basics including frame rate, compression stages and HDR mapping.

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Common Color Representation Methods and Image/Video Fundamentals
Baidu Geek Talk
Baidu Geek Talk
Jun 9, 2022 · Fundamentals

H.265 Video Encoding Principles and Technical Framework

The article explains H.265 (HEVC) encoding fundamentals, describing its two‑layer VCL/NAL architecture, quad‑tree CTU hierarchy, intra‑ and inter‑frame prediction, DCT/DST transform coding, quantization, CABAC entropy coding, and loop‑filtering techniques that together achieve roughly 50 % bitrate reduction while preserving quality.

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H.265 Video Encoding Principles and Technical Framework
Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team
Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team
Mar 21, 2022 · Fundamentals

Why Video Encoding Matters and How Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Works

Video encoding reduces massive raw video data by removing spatial and temporal redundancies, and Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extends traditional codecs with layered streams that adapt to varying bandwidth, resolution, and quality, offering benefits like single-pass encoding, packet loss resilience, and broad compatibility.

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Why Video Encoding Matters and How Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Works
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Nov 5, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

iQIYI’s QAV1 Encoder Achieves High Compression and Bandwidth Savings Using AV1 and Deep Learning

iQIYI’s QAV1 encoder, which combines the next‑generation AV1 codec with deep‑learning techniques, delivers 20‑42% bandwidth savings and up to 36% higher compression efficiency than x265 while maintaining ultrafast 60 fps encoding speeds, enabling high‑quality 4K/8K streaming and live broadcast across devices.

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iQIYI’s QAV1 Encoder Achieves High Compression and Bandwidth Savings Using AV1 and Deep Learning
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 2, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Weather Delays Linux Kernel 5.12 Release – Inside New AI Video Compression Breakthrough

Severe U.S. weather forced Linus Torvalds into a six‑day power outage, pushing back Linux kernel 5.12 integration while the update adds Clang LTO and new hardware support, Apple reopens all stores, ByteDance unveils an AI‑driven video compression that saves 13% bandwidth, and GitHub reports a surge of Hong Kong developers.

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Weather Delays Linux Kernel 5.12 Release – Inside New AI Video Compression Breakthrough
iQIYI Technical Product Team
iQIYI Technical Product Team
Dec 11, 2020 · Fundamentals

Analysis of the MSU World Video Codec Competition and the Current State of the AV1 Ecosystem

The MSU World Video Codec Competition highlighted iQIYI’s QAV1 encoder achieving faster speeds and superior compression compared to H.265, while the expanding AV1 ecosystem—bolstered by widespread hardware decoding, platform adoption, and recent QAV1 enhancements such as 8K, HDR, and improved rate‑distortion optimization—promises higher quality video at lower bandwidth costs.

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Analysis of the MSU World Video Codec Competition and the Current State of the AV1 Ecosystem
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Oct 22, 2019 · Game Development

Key Technologies of Immersive Media in the 5G Era: 3D, Point Cloud, and Compression

With 5G accelerating video traffic, immersive media relies on advanced 3D representation, efficient point‑cloud and video‑based compression, standardized containers, and selective streaming to enable realistic VR/AR experiences across gaming, autonomous driving, and broadcasting, while Tencent’s lab drives standards and future XR applications.

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Key Technologies of Immersive Media in the 5G Era: 3D, Point Cloud, and Compression
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Oct 16, 2019 · Industry Insights

How 5G Is Driving New Multimedia Standards and the Rise of VVC & 8K

The article explains why 5G forces multimedia standardization, outlines the challenges of emerging formats like 8K, details the VVC (H.266) compression breakthrough, and describes Tencent's role in shaping future heterogeneous‑computing‑based multimedia architectures for cloud gaming and beyond.

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How 5G Is Driving New Multimedia Standards and the Rise of VVC & 8K
Efficient Ops
Efficient Ops
Apr 25, 2018 · Operations

How Tencent Cut Over $1B in Bandwidth Costs with Smart Image & Video Compression

This article shares Tencent SNG's practical experience in bandwidth cost optimization, detailing how advanced image and video compression techniques, adaptive resolution, AI‑driven super‑resolution, and efficient transcoding pipelines reduced over a billion yuan in cash flow while preserving user experience and product quality.

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How Tencent Cut Over $1B in Bandwidth Costs with Smart Image & Video Compression