I worked at a startup (WaveOne) doing neural net-based compression. Your description of the state of the art seems a bit off, here's a 2021 paper [1] from WaveO

I worked at a startup (WaveOne) doing neural net-based compression. Your description of the state of the art seems a bit off, here's a 2021 paper [1] from WaveOne for comparison. Large GPUs, maybe, but only seconds (or less) for 720p+ frames. [1] https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/papers/Rippel_ELF-VC_Efficient_Learned_Flexible-Rate_Video_Coding_ICCV_2021_paper.pdf https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/papers/Rippel...