Registration

To participate, please indicate your interests by either visiting the registration link, scanning the QR code or contacting Dr. Yue Li (yue.li@bytedance.com). Please make sure to complete this step by October 26, 2025 to ensure your participation is recorded. If you successfully register, you will receive an acknowledgement via email confirming your participation.

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Important Dates

  • October 26, 2025: 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)

  • October 26, 2025: Deadline of paper submission (aligned with Special Sessions) for participants

    • Submission to this Special Session should be through ePapers (Track 17 Grand Challenge on Neural Network-based Video Coding)

  • January 11, 2025: 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, 2026: Organizers release the test sequences (including frame rate, corresponding rate-distortion points, etc.)

  • January 19, 2026: Paper acceptance notification

  • February 14, 2026: Participants upload compressed bitstreams and decoded YUV files

  • February 23, 2026: Deadline of fact sheets submission for participants

  • February 9, 2026: Camera-ready paper submission deadline

  • TBA: Paper presentation at ISCAS 2026

  • TBA: Awards announcement (at the ISCAS 2026 banquet)