An Effective Template-Generated Video Compression Scheme by Exploiting Inter-Video Motion Correlation

Template-generated videos (TGVs), created by applying animation templates to static images, have become increasingly prevalent, producing massive user-generated content with highly consistent motion patterns. However, existing video compression schemes are designed to eliminate motion redundancy within individual videos, while overlooking the shared motion patterns widespread across TGVs. To address this limitation, we propose a novel compression scheme that effectively leverages inter-video motion priors to enhance the compression efficiency of TGVs. Specifically, the proposed scheme operates as a two-stage pipeline. In the first stage, high-quality motion priors are identified from a representative TGV based on spatial texture and prediction error. In the second stage, these motion priors are intelligently integrated to expand the motion representation space beyond the local candidate lists in Merge and AMVP modes, thereby enabling the codec to remove inter-video redundancy. Experimental results on the versatile video coding test model (VTM-23.0) demonstrate consistent coding gains across various compression scenarios for TGVs, achieving average BD-rate savings of 1.07 %, 1.38 %, and 1.18% under low-delay P (LDP), low-delay B (LDB), and random access (RA) configurations, respectively.