8–11 December 2025 | SuperC of RWTH Aachen University, Germany.The 38th Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) brought together researchers, engineers, and industry leaders from around the world at RWTH Aachen University for four days of discussion and discovery focused on the design, implementation, and application of visual data coding and processing. In 2025, PCS hosted the well-known Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) for the first time. The challenge aims to advance image and video compression by leveraging machine learning and computer vision.