| CPC H04N 19/85 (2014.11) [H04N 19/176 (2014.11)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method, comprising:
obtaining a first motion-compensated region for a block of a picture and obtaining a second region for the block;
providing as input to a main branch of a neural network the first motion-compensated region and the second region;
providing as input to a skip connection of the neural network a tensor that concatenates the first motion-compensated region and the second region;
obtaining from the skip connection a combination of the tensor with an output of a layer of the main branch of the neural network, wherein obtaining the combination includes one of: concatenating the tensor with the output of the layer of the main branch or performing a convolution on the tensor and adding the convoluted tensor to the output of the layer of the main branch;
performing a convolution on the combination obtained from the skip connection;
obtaining a prediction for the block based on an output of the convolution performed on the combination obtained from the skip connection; and
encoding the block based on the prediction.
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