Important Dates

  • September 20, 2023: The organizers release the validation set as well as the corresponding test information to those who have expressed interest (for example, frame rates and intra periods) and template for performance reporting (with rate-distortion points for the validation set)

  • November 07 October 15, 2023 (extended): Deadline of paper submission (aligned with Special Sessions) for participants

  • January 11, 2024 December 28, 2023 (extended): Participants upload a docker container for the first two tracks (i.e., the hybrid NN-based and end-to-end video codec) with a decoder, wherein only the single decoder shall be utilized for decoding all the bitstreams; or for the third track (i.e., NN enhanced VVC encoder track) with an encoder, wherein only the single VVC encoder shall be utilized for generating all the bitstreams.

  • January 22, 2024 January 8, 2023 (extended): Organizers release the test sequences (including frame rate, corresponding rate-distortion points, etc.)

  • January 15, 2023: Paper acceptance notification

  • February 14, 2024 January 31, 2023 (extended): Participants upload compressed bitstreams and decoded YUV files

  • February 19, 2024 February 5, 2024 (extended): Deadline of fact sheets submission for participants

  • February 5, 2024: Camera-ready paper submission deadline

  • May 21, 2024 (08:30-10:00): Paper presentation at ISCAS 2024 (B2L-11 Grand Challenge on Neural Network-based Video Coding)

  • TBA: Awards announcement (at the ISCAS 2024 banquet)

Awards

ByteDance will sponsor the awards of this grand challenge. Four categories of awards are expected to be presented. Three top-performance awards will be granted according to the performance, for the hybrid track, the end-to-end track, and the VVC encoder-only track respectively. In addition, to foster innovation, a top-creativity award will be given to the most inspiring scheme recommended by a committee group, and it is only applicable to participants whose papers are accepted by ISCAS 2024. The winner of each award (if any) will receive a $5000 USD prize.