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    Author(s)
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    Mu-Jung Chen
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    Affiliation
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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    Hong-Sheng Xie
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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    Cheng Chien
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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    Wen-Hsiao Peng
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    National Chiao Tung University
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    Hsueh-Ming Hang
    Affiliation
    Affiliation
    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Abstract

    This paper introduces a learned hierarchical B-frame coding scheme in response to the Grand Challenge on Neural Network-based Video Coding at ISCAS 2023. We build our scheme on conditional augmented normalized flows. It features conditional motion and inter-frame codecs for B-frame coding. To tackle YUV 4:2:0 content, two conditional inter-frame codecs are used to process the Y and UV components separately, with the UV components coded conditionally based on the Y component. Moreover, we introduce adaptive feature modulation in every convolutional layer, taking into account both the content information and the coding levels of B-frames to achieve content-adaptive variable-rate coding.