Mirror Fractal Codec
Lossless compression for neuromorphic event-camera data (DVS/ATIS).
1.51 bits/event · 47.6x compression · 0.55 ms per N-MNIST sample.
Patent Pending — US Provisional #64/034,974
Install
pip install mfc-codec
Pre-built wheels for CPython 3.11 on Linux (manylinux_2_34 x86_64), macOS (arm64), and Windows (amd64).
Quick start
import mfc
events = mfc.load_nmnist("sample.bin")
compressed, stats = mfc.compress(events, width=34, height=34, t_bits=16, xy_bits=8)
print(f"{stats.compression_ratio:.1f}x, {stats.bits_per_event:.2f} bpe")
decoded = mfc.decompress(compressed)
assert events == decoded # bit-exact, lossless
Results
N-MNIST (60,000 real samples, 34×34 sensor)
| Digit | Samples | Avg events | Ratio | bpe | Encode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 60,000 | 4,172 | 47.6× | 1.51 | 0.55 ms |
High-resolution synthetic
| Config | Events | Raw | Compressed | Ratio | Encode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVS128 500K | 500K | 4,395 KB | 3.9 KB | 1,117× | 4.9 ms |
| VGA 2M | 2M | 17,578 KB | 20.0 KB | 878× | 36.9 ms |
| HD 1M | 1M | 8,789 KB | 8.5 KB | 1,040× | 58.2 ms |
Supported dataset formats
N-MNIST .bin · AEDAT 2.0 .aedat · DSEC HDF5 (Blosc/LZ4/zstd) · .npy · .evb · CSV · .dat/.raw
Links
- Live demo — https://codec.mirrorfractal.com
- Public repository (docs, examples, issues) — https://github.com/MirrorFractal/codec
- Paper / Zenodo deposit — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19704064
Citation
@software{mfc_codec_2026,
author = {Solonskii, Aleksei},
title = {Mirror Fractal Codec: Lossless Compression for Neuromorphic Event Camera Streams},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.19704064},
url = {https://codec.mirrorfractal.com}
}
License
Proprietary — all rights reserved. Patent Pending US 64/034,974.
Contact: info@mirrorfractal.com
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