Integrating thor tools into the emerging AV1 codec

Over recent years there have been several efforts which aim to standardise a royalty-free video codec, such as Thor developed by Cisco, and AV1 developed by the Alliance for Open Media. In this paper we discuss how some compression tools in Thor were integrated into the emerging AV1 codec aiming to increase compression efficiency as well as to decrease computational complexity.

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