arxiveess.IVcs.CV2026-07-21
BLUE: Semantics-Preserving Video Compression for Efficient Vision-Language Surveillance Analytics
Shubham Baid, Akash James, Sahil Chachra, Nishant Sinha, Kunal Kislay
Continuous surveillance video creates a growing storage, transmission, and inference burden for enterprise video analytics systems. While modern codecs such as H.265 reduce bitrate for human-viewable video, aggressive compression can degrade downstream computer-vision performance…