From Pixels to Nucleotides: End-to-End Token-Based Video Compression for DNA Storage
DNA-based storage has emerged as a promising approach to the global data crisis, offering molecular-scale density and millennial-scale stability at low maintenance cost. Over the past decade, substantial progress has been made in storing text, images, and files in DNA -- yet video remains an open challenge. The difficulty is not merely technical: effective video DNA storage requires co-designing compression and molecular encoding from the ground up, a challenge that sits at the intersection of two fields that have largely evolved independently. In this work, we present HELIX, the first end-to-end neural network jointly optimizing video compression and DNA encoding -- prior approaches trea...
| Authors | Cihan Ruan, Lebin Zhou, Bingqing Zhao et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 15 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 April 2026 |
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