EP1880553A1 - Procede et appareil permettant de decoder un signal video au moyen d'images de reference - Google Patents

Procede et appareil permettant de decoder un signal video au moyen d'images de reference

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EP1880553A1
EP1880553A1 EP06732851A EP06732851A EP1880553A1 EP 1880553 A1 EP1880553 A1 EP 1880553A1 EP 06732851 A EP06732851 A EP 06732851A EP 06732851 A EP06732851 A EP 06732851A EP 1880553 A1 EP1880553 A1 EP 1880553A1
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Byeong Moon Jeon
Seung Wook Park
Ji Ho Park
Doe Hyun Yoon
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  • the present invention relates to scalable encoding and decoding of a video signal, and more particularly to a method ' and apparatus for encoding a video signal, wherein a base layer in the video signal is additionally used to code an enhanced layer in the video signal, and a method and apparatus for decoding such encoded video data.
  • Scalable Video Codec is a method which encodes video into a sequence of pictures with the highest image quality while ensuring that part of the encoded picture sequence (specifically, a partial sequence of frames intermittently selected from the total sequence of frames) can also be decoded and used to represent the video with a low image quality.
  • Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering MCTF is an encoding scheme that has been suggested for use in the scalable video codec.
  • auxiliary picture sequence for low bitrates for example, a sequence of pictures that have a small screen size and/or a low frame rate, so that each decoder can select and decode a sequence suitable for its capabilities and characteristics.
  • One example is to encode and transmit not only a main picture sequence of 4CIF (Common Intermediate Format) but also an auxiliary picture sequence of CIF and an auxiliary picture sequence of QCIF (Quarter CIF) to decoders.
  • Each sequence is referred to as a layer, and the higher of two given layers is referred to as an enhanced layer and the lower is referred to as a base layer.
  • Such picture sequences have redundancy since the same video signal source is encoded into the sequences.
  • To increase the coding efficiency of each sequence there is a need to reduce the amount of coded information of the higher sequence by performing inter-sequence picture prediction of video frames in the higher sequence from video frames in the lower sequence temporally coincident with the video frames in the higher sequence.
  • video frames in sequences of different layers may have different aspect ratios.
  • video frames of the higher sequence i.e. , the enhanced layer
  • video frames of the lower sequence i.e., the base layer
  • the present invention relates to decoding a video signal .
  • At least a portion of a current image in a current layer is predicted based on at least a portion of a reference image, offset information and dimension information.
  • the offset information may indicate a position offset between at least one boundary pixel of the reference image and at least one boundary pixel of the current image
  • the dimension information may indicate at least one dimension of the current image .
  • the reference image is based on a base image in a base layer.
  • the reference image may be at least an up-sampled portion of the base image.
  • the offset information includes left offset information indicating a position offset between at least one left side pixel of the reference image and at least one left side pixel of the current image.
  • the offset information includes top offset information indicating a position offset between at least one top side pixel of the reference image and at least one top side pixel of the current image.
  • the dimension information includes width information indicating a width of the current image.
  • the dimension information includes height information indicating a height of the current image.
  • the offset information may be obtained from a header for at least a portion of a picture (e.g., a slice, frame, etc.) in the current layer. Also, it maybe determined that the offset information is present based on an indicator in the header.
  • a picture e.g., a slice, frame, etc.
  • Other embodiments include apparatuses for decoding a video signal .
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a video signal encoding apparatus to which a scalable video signal coding method according to the present invention is applied;
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of part of an MCTF encoder shown in FIG. 1 responsible for carrying out image estimation/prediction and update operations;
  • FIGS . 3a and 3b illustrate the relationship between enhanced layer frames and base layer frames which can be used as reference frames for converting an enhanced layer frame to an H frame having a predictive image
  • FIG. 4 illustrates how part of a base layer picture is selected and enlarged to be used for a prediction operation of an enhanced layer picture according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b illustrate embodiments of the structure of information regarding a positional relationship of a base layer picture to an enhanced layer picture, which is transmitted to the decoder, according to the present invention
  • FIG. 6 illustrates how an area including a base layer picture is enlarged to be used for a prediction operation of an enhanced layer picture according to another embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 7 illustrates how a base layer picture is enlarged to a larger area than an enhanced layer picture so as to be used for a prediction operation of the enhanced layer picture according to yet another embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 8 is a block diagram of an apparatus for decoding a data stream encoded by the apparatus of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 9 is a block diagram of part of an MCTF decoder shown in FIG. 8 responsible for carrying out inverse prediction and update operations.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a video signal encoding apparatus to which a scalable video signal coding method according to the present invention is applied.
  • the apparatus of FIG. 1 is implemented to code an input video signal in two layers, principles of the present invention described below can also be applied when a video signal is coded in three or more layers.
  • the present invention can also be applied to any scalable video coding scheme, without being limited to an MCTF scheme which is described below as an example.
  • the video signal encoding apparatus shown in FIG. 1 comprises an MCTF encoder 100 to which the present invention is applied, a texture coding unit 110, a motion coding unit 120, a base layer encoder 150, and a muxer (or multiplexer) 130.
  • the MCTF encoder 100 is an enhanced layer encoder which encodes an input video signal on a per macroblock basis according to an MCTF scheme and generates suitable management information.
  • the texture coding unit 110 converts information of encoded macroblocks into a compressed bitstream.
  • the motion coding unit 120 codes motion vectors of image blocks obtained by the MCTF encoder 100 into a compressed bitstream according to a specified scheme.
  • the base layer encoder 150 encodes an input video signal according to a specified scheme, for example, according to the MPEG-I, 2 or 4 standard or the H.261, H.263 or H.264 standard, and produces a small -screen picture sequence, for example, a sequence of pictures scaled down to 25% of their original size.
  • the muxer 130 encapsulates the output data of the texture coding unit 110, the small-screen picture sequence output from the base layer encoder 150, and the output vector data of the motion coding unit 120 into a desired format.
  • the muxer 130 then multiplexes and outputs the encapsulated data into a desired transmission format.
  • the base layer encoder 150 can provide a low-bitrate data stream not only by encoding an input video signal into a sequence of pictures having a smaller screen size than pictures of the enhanced layer, but also by encoding an input video signal into a sequence of pictures having the same screen size as pictures of the enhanced layer at a lower frame rate than the enhanced layer.
  • the base layer is encoded into a small -screen picture sequence, and the small-screen picture sequence is referred to as a base layer sequence and the frame sequence output from the MCTF encoder 100 is referred to as an enhanced layer sequence.
  • the MCTF encoder 100 performs motion estimation and prediction operations on each target macroblock in a video frame.
  • the MCTF encoder 100 also performs an update operation for each target macroblock by adding an image difference of the target macroblock from a corresponding macroblock in a neighbor frame to the corresponding macroblock in the neighbor frame.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates some elements of the MCTF encoder 100 for carrying out these operations.
  • the elements of the MCTF encoder 100 shown in FIG. 2 include an estimator/predictor 102, an updater 103, and a decoder 105.
  • the decoder 105 decodes an encoded stream received from the base layer encoder 150, and enlarges decoded small-screen frames to the size of frames in the enhanced layer using an internal sealer 105a.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 searches for a reference block of each macroblock in a current frame, which is to be coded into residual data, in adjacent frames prior to or subsequent to the current frame and in frames enlarged by the sealer 105a.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 then obtains an image difference (i.e., a pixel-to-pixel difference) of each macroblock in the current frame from the reference block or from a corresponding block in a temporally coincident frame enlarged by the sealer 105a, and codes the image difference into the macroblock.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 also obtains a motion vector originating from the macroblock and extending to the reference block.
  • the updater 103 performs an update operation for a macroblock in the current frame, whose reference block has been found in frames prior to or subsequent to the current frame, by multiplying the image difference of the macroblock by an appropriate constant (for example, 1/2 or 1/4) and adding the resulting value to the reference block.
  • the operation carried out by the updater 103 is referred to as a 'U' operation, and a frame produced by the 1 U' operation is referred to as an 'L 1 frame.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 and the updater 103 of FIG. 2 may perform their operations on a plurality of slices, which are produced by dividing a single frame, simultaneously and in parallel instead of performing their operations on the video frame.
  • a frame (or slice) having an image difference, which is produced by the estimator/predictor 102, is referred to as an 1 H' frame
  • the 1 H' frame (or slice) contains data having high frequency components of the video signal .
  • the term 'picture 1 is used to indicate a slice or a frame, provided that the use of the term is technically feasible.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 divides each of the input video frames (or L frames obtained at the previous level) into macroblocks of a desired size. For each divided macroblock, the estimator/predictor 102 searches for a block, whose image is most similar to that of each divided macroblock, in previous/next neighbor frames of the enhanced layer and/or in base layer frames enlarged by the sealer 105a. That is, the estimator/predictor 102 searches for a macroblock temporally correlated with each divided macroblock. A block having the most similar image to a target image block has the smallest image difference from the target image block. The image difference of two image blocks is defined, for example, as the sum or average of pixel-to-pixel differences of the two image blocks.
  • a block having the smallest image difference from the target macroblock is referred to as a reference block.
  • a picture including the reference block is referred to as a reference picture.
  • two reference blocks may be present in a frame
  • the estimator/predictor 102 calculates and outputs a motion vector from the current block to the reference block.
  • the estimator/predictor "102 also calculates and outputs pixel error values (i.e., pixel difference values) of the current block from pixel values of the reference block, which is present in either the prior frame or the subsequent frame, or from average pixel values of the two reference blocks, which are present in the prior and subsequent frames.
  • pixel error values i.e., pixel difference values
  • the image or pixel difference values are also referred top as residual data.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 determines whether or not a frame in the same time zone as the current frame (hereinafter also referred to as a "temporally coincident frame") or a frame in a close time zone to the current frame (hereinafter also referred to as a “temporally close frame”) is present in the base layer sequence.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 obtains the image difference (i.e., residual data) of the current macroblock from a corresponding macroblock in the temporally coincident or close frame based on pixel values of the two macroblocks, and does not obtain a motion vector of the current macroblock with respect to the corresponding macroblock.
  • the close time zone to the current frame corresponds to a time interval including frames that can be regarded as having the same image as the current frame . Information of this time interval is carried within an encoded stream.
  • the above operation of the estimator/predictor 102 is referred to as a 'P' operation.
  • the estimator/predictor 102 performs the 'P' operation to produce an H frame by searching for a reference block of each macroblock in the current frame and coding each macroblock into residual data
  • the estimator/predictor 102 can selectively use, as reference pictures, enlarged pictures of the base layer received from the sealer l ' 05a, in addition to neighbor L frames of the enhanced layer prior to and subsequent to the current frame, as shown in FIG. 3a.
  • FIG. 3b shows five frames that can be used to produce an H frame.
  • a current L frame 400L has L frames 401 prior to and L frames 402 subsequent to the current L frame 400L.
  • the current L frame 400L also has a base layer frame 405 in the same time zone.
  • One or two frames from among the L frames 401 and 402 in the same MCTF level as a current L frame 400L, the frame 405 of the base layer in the same time zone as the L frame 400L, and base layer frames 403 and 404 prior to and subsequent to the frame 405 are used as reference pictures to produce an H frame 400H from the current L frame 400L.
  • a picture of the base layer is selected as a reference picture for prediction of a picture of the enhanced layer in the reference picture selection method as shown in FIG. 3b
  • all or part of the base layer picture can be used for prediction of the enhanced layer picture.
  • a base layer picture has an aspect ratio of 4:3
  • an actual image portion 502 of the base layer picture has an aspect ratio of 16:9
  • an enhanced layer picture 500 has an aspect ratio of 16:9
  • upper and lower horizontal portions 501a and 501b of the base layer picture contain invalid data.
  • only the image portion 502 of the base layer picture is used for prediction of the enhanced layer picture 500.
  • the sealer 105a selects (or crops) the image portion 502 of the base layer picture (S41) , up-samples the selected image portion 502 to enlarge it to the size of the enhanced layer picture 500 (S42) , and provides the enlarged image portion to the estimator/predictor 102.
  • the MCTF encoder 100 incorporates position information of the selected portion of the base layer picture into a header of the current picture coded into residual data.
  • the MCTF encoder 100 also sets and inserts a flag "flag_base_layer_cropping" , which indicates that part of the base layer picture has been selected and used, in the picture header at an appropriate position so that the flag is delivered to the decoder.
  • the position information is not transmitted when the flag "flag_base_layer_cropping" is reset.
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b illustrate embodiments of the structure of information regarding a selected portion 512 of a base layer picture.
  • the selected portion 512 of the base layer picture is specified by offsets (left_offset , right_offset , top_offset, and bottom_offset) from the left, right, top and bottom boundaries of the base layer picture.
  • the left offset indicates a position offset between left side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the base layer image and left side pixels in the selected portion 512.
  • the top offset indicates a position offset between top side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the base layer image and top side pixels in the selected portion 512.
  • the right offset indicates a position offset between right side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the base layer image and right side pixels in the selected portion 512.
  • the bottom side offset indicates a position offset between bottom side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the base layer image and bottom side pixels in the selected portion 512.
  • the selected portion 512 of the base layer picture is specified by offsets
  • the offsets in the information of the selected portion shown in FIGS. 5a and 5b may have negative values.
  • a base layer picture has an aspect ratio of 4:3
  • an enhanced layer picture 600 has an aspect ratio of 16:9
  • an actual image portion of the picture has an aspect ratio of 4:3
  • the left and right offset values have negative values -d L and -d R .
  • Portions 601a and 601b extended from the base layer picture are specified by the negative values -d L and -d R .
  • the extended portions 601a and 601b are padded with offscreen data, and a picture 610 including the extended portions 601a and 601b is upsampled to have the same size as that of the enhanced layer picture 600. Accordingly, data of an area 611 in the enlarged base layer picture, which corresponds to an actual image portion of the enhanced layer picture 600, can be used for prediction of the actual image portion of the enhanced layer picture 600.
  • the same advantages as described above in the example of FIG. 4 can be achieved by using the information of FIGS. 5a and 5b as position information of an area overlapping with the enhanced layer picture, which is to be associated with the enlarged base layer picture, instead of using the information of FIGS. 5a and 5b for specifying the selected area in the base layer picture.
  • a base layer picture 702 when a base layer picture 702 is upsampled so that an actual image area 701 of the base layer picture 702 is enlarged to the size of an enhanced layer picture 700, the enlarged (e.g., up-sampled) picture corresponds to an area larger than the enhanced layer picture 700.
  • top and bottom offsets top_offset and bottom_offset are included in the position information of an area overlapping with the enhanced layer picture 700. These offsets correspond to the enlarged base layer picture, and are assigned negative values -d ⁇ and -d B so that only an actual image area of the enlarged base layer picture is used for prediction of the enhanced layer picture 700.
  • left and right offsets of the position information of the area corresponding to the enlarged base layer picture are zero.
  • the left and right offsets may be non-zero, and also correspond to the enlarged base layer picture.
  • a portion of the image in the enlarged base layer picture may not be used in determining the enhanced layer picture.
  • the offset information corresponds to the base layer picture, as opposed to the up-sample base layer picture, a portion of the image in the base layer picture may not be used in determining the enhanced layer picture.
  • the left offset indicates a position offset between left side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the up-sampled base layer image and left side pixels in the enhanced layer image.
  • the top offset indicates a position offset between top side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the up-sampled base layer image and top side pixels in the enhanced layer image.
  • the right offset indicates a position offset between right side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the up-sampled base layer image and right side pixels in the enhanced layer image.
  • the bottom side offset indicates a position offset between bottom side pixels (or, for example, at least one pixel) in the up-sampled base layer image and bottom side pixels in the enhanced layer image.
  • the information of FIGS. 5a and 5b can be used as information for selection of a portion of a base layer picture, which is to be used for prediction of an enhanced layer picture, or can be used as position information of an area overlapping with an enhanced layer picture, which is to be associated with a base layer picture for use in prediction of the enhanced layer picture .
  • Information of the size and aspect ratio of the base layer picture, mode information of an actual image of the base layer picture, etc. can be determined by decoding, for example, from a sequence header of the encoded base layer stream. Namely, the information may be recorded in the sequence header of the encoded base layer stream. Accordingly, the position of an area overlapping with the enhanced layer picture, which corresponds to the base layer picture or the selected area in the base layer picture described above, are determined based on position or offset information, and all or part of the base layer picture is used to suit this determination.
  • the MCTF encoder 100 generates a sequence of H frames and a sequence of L frames, respectively, by performing the 'P' and 1 U' operations described above on a certain-length sequence of pictures, for example, on a group of pictures (GOP) . Then, an estimator/predictor and an updater at a next serially-connected stage (not shown) generates a sequence of H frames and a sequence of L frames by repeating the 'P' and
  • the 'P' and 'U' operations are performed an appropriate number of times (for example, until one L frame is produced per GOP) to produce a final enhanced layer sequence .
  • FIG. 8 is a block diagram of an apparatus for decoding a data stream encoded by the apparatus of FIG. 1.
  • the decoding apparatus of FIG. 8 includes a demuxer (or demultiplexer) 200, a texture decoding unit 210, a motion decoding unit 220, an MCTF decoder 230, and a base layer decoder 240.
  • the demuxer 200 separates a received data stream into a compressed motion vector stream, a compressed macroblock information stream, and a base layer stream.
  • the texture decoding unit 210 reconstructs the compressed macroblock information stream to its original uncompressed state.
  • the motion decoding unit 220 reconstructs the compressed motion vector stream to its original uncompressed state.
  • the MCTF decoder 230 is an enhanced layer decoder which converts the uncompressed macroblock information stream and the uncompressed motion vector stream back to an original video signal according to an MCTF scheme.
  • the base layer decoder 240 decodes the base layer stream according to a specified scheme, for example, according to the MPEG-4 or H.264 standard.
  • the MCTF decoder 230 includes, as an internal element, an inverse filter that has a structure as shown in FIG. 9 for reconstructing an input stream to its original frame sequence.
  • FIG. 9 shows some elements of the inverse filter for reconstructing a sequence of H and L frames of MCTF level N to a sequence of L frames of level N-I.
  • the elements of the inverse filter of FIG. 9 include an inverse updater 231, an inverse predictor 232, a motion vector decoder 235, an arranger 234, and a sealer 230a.
  • the inverse updater 231 subtracts pixel difference values of input H frames from corresponding pixel values of input L frames.
  • the inverse predictor 232 reconstructs input H frames to frames having original images with reference to the L frames, from which the image differences of the H frames have been subtracted, and/or with reference to enlarged pictures output from the sealer 240a.
  • the motion vector decoder 235 decodes an input motion vector stream into motion vector information of each 5 block and provides the motion vector information to an inverse predictor (for example, the inverse predictor 232) of each stage.
  • the arranger 234 interleaves the frames completed by the inverse predictor 232 between the L frames output from the inverse updater 231, thereby producing a normal video frame sequence.
  • 10 230a enlarges small -screen pictures of the base layer to the enhanced layer picture size, for example, according to the information as shown in FIGS. 5a and 5b.
  • the L frames output from the arranger 234 constitute an L frame sequence 601 of level N-I.
  • level N-I reconstructs the L frame sequence 601 and an input H frame sequence 602 of level N-I to an L frame sequence.
  • This decoding process is performed the same number of times as the number of MCTF levels employed in the encoding procedure, thereby reconstructing an original video frame
  • the inverse predictor 232 specifies an L frame of the enhanced layer and/or an enlarged frame of the base layer which has been used as a reference frame to code the macroblock to
  • the inverse predictor 232 determines a reference block in the specified frame based on a motion vector provided from the motion vector decoder 235, and then adds pixel values of the reference block (or average pixel values of two macroblocks used as reference blocks of the macroblock) to pixel difference
  • the sealer 230a selects and enlarges an area in the base layer picture (in the example of FIG. 4) or enlarges a larger area than the base layer picture (in the example of FIG. 6) based on positional relationship information as shown in FIGS. 5a and 5b included in a header analyzed by the MCTF decoder 230 so that the enlarged area of the base layer picture is used for reconstructing macroblocks containing residual data in the current H frame to original image blocks as described above .
  • the positional relationship information is extracted from the header and is then referred to when information indicating whether or not the positional relationship information is included (specifically, the flag "flag_base_layer_cropping" in the example of FIGS . 5a and 5b) indicates that the positional relationship information is included.
  • the inverse predictor 232 uses an enlarged one of the base layer picture received from the sealer 230a for prediction of the enhanced layer picture by associating the entirety of the enlarged base layer picture with all or part of the current H frame or with a larger area than the current H frame according to the values (positive or negative) of the offset information.
  • the inverse predictor 232 uses an enlarged one of the base layer picture received from the sealer 230a for prediction of the enhanced layer picture by associating the entirety of the enlarged base layer picture with all or part of the current H frame or with a larger area than the current H frame according to the values (positive or negative) of the offset information.
  • the predictor 232 uses only an area in the enlarged base layer picture, which corresponds to the H frame, for reconstructing macroblocks in the current H frame to their original images .
  • the offset information included negative values.
  • the MCTF decoding is performed in specified units, for example, in units of slices in a parallel fashion, so that the macroblocks in the frame have their original images reconstructed and the reconstructed macroblocks are then combined to constitute a complete video frame.
  • the above decoding method reconstructs an MCTF-encoded data stream to a complete video frame sequence.
  • the decoding apparatus decodes and outputs a base layer sequence or decodes and outputs an enhanced layer sequence using the base layer depending on its processing and presentation capabilities.
  • the decoding apparatus described above may be incorporated into a mobile communication terminal, a media player, or the like.
  • a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video signal uses pictures of a base layer provided for low-performance decoders, in addition to pictures of an enhanced layer, when encoding a video signal in a scalable fashion, so that the total amount of coded data is reduced, thereby increasing coding efficiency.
  • part of a base layer picture which can be used for a prediction operation of an enhanced layer picture, is specified so that the prediction operation can be performed normally without performance degradation even when a picture enlarged from the base layer picture cannot be directly used for the prediction operation of the enhanced layer picture.

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L'invention concerne un procédé permettant de décoder un signal vidéo et dans lequel au moins une partie d'une image actuelle dans une couche actuelle est prévue en fonction d'au moins une partie d'une image de référence, d'informations de décalage et d'informations de dimension. Les informations de décalage peuvent indiquer un décalage de position entre au moins un pixel de limite de l'image de référence et au moins un pixel de limite de l'image actuelle et les informations de dimension peuvent indiquer au moins une dimension de l'image actuelle.
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