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• Embodiments of the present application generally relate to the field of picture processing and more particularly to intra block copy and deblocking filtering.
• Video coding (video encoding and decoding) is used in a wide range of digital video applications, for example broadcast digital TV, video transmission over internet and mobile networks, real-time conversational applications such as video chat, video conferencing, DVD and Blu-ray discs, video content acquisition and editing systems, and camcorders of security applications.
• digital video applications for example broadcast digital TV, video transmission over internet and mobile networks, real-time conversational applications such as video chat, video conferencing, DVD and Blu-ray discs, video content acquisition and editing systems, and camcorders of security applications.
• Video compression devices often use software and/or hardware at the source to code the video data prior to transmission or storage, thereby decreasing the quantity of data needed to represent digital video images.
• the compressed data is then received at the destination by a video decompression device that decodes the video data.
• Embodiments of the present application provide apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding according to the independent claims.
• the present disclosure discloses:
• a method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode the method performed by a coding device, the method comprising the following steps:
• performing a deblocking filter for the prediction to obtain a filtered block comprising:
• each sub-block is at least 4x4.
• a predictor block in a current picture is reconstructed based on the reconstructed samples, i.e. before the application of in-loop filtering of the current picture.
• the current block is divided by sub-blocks and it is searched for boundaries inherited from the reference picture.
• this may include sub-block (or sub-pu) deblocking in the case of IBC predicted block as it is done for affine and ATMVP sub-blocks edges.
• sub-block deblocking is performed on a grid 8x8, i.e. for blocks 4x4 and 4x8/8x4 it is performed a regular deblocking mechanism.
• the sub-block deblocking filtering may be applied on sub-block edges, which divides parts of the current block.
• deblocking may be performed in vertical direction on vertical edges of sub-blocks of a grid of a predefined size of the current block; and/or deblocking may be performed in horizontal direction on horizontal edges of sub-blocks of the grid of the predefined size of the current block.
• the predefined size of the grid may be 8x8.
• deblocking may be performed in vertical direction on vertical edges of sub-blocks of size 8x8 of the current block. Further, in the method as described above, deblocking may be performed in horizontal direction on horizontal edges of sub-blocks of size 8x8 of the current block.
• calculating of the boundary strength for filtering in horizontal direction for the top row with size N-by-4 may be performed based on parameters of each 4-by-4 sub-block, wherein the parameters for calculation of each 4-by-4 sub-block may be derived from the corresponding positions of the current block its and top-collocated block of size 4-by-4.
• calculating of the boundary strength for filtering in horizontal direction for rows except the top row with size N-by-4 may be performed based on parameters of each 4-by-4 sub-block, which may be derived from corresponding positions of the reference block and its top-collocated block of size 4-by-4.
• a boundary strength of deblocking for the edges of a sub-block that lies inside the current block should be calculated based on the parameters of the reference block.
• a boundary strength of the edges lying on outer borders of the current block should be calculated based on the parameters of the current block.
• a boundary strength may be calculated for each 4-by-4 sub-blocks.
• vertical filtering for sub-blocks on the left column may use parameters for calculations boundary strength from corresponding points of the current block.
• it should use parameters derived from the correspondent points of the reference block.
• horizontal filtering for sub blocks on the top row may use parameters for calculations boundary strength from corresponding points of the current block.
• the other sub-blocks it should use parameters derived from the correspondent points of the reference block.
• calculating of the boundary strength for filtering in horizontal direction for rows except the top row with size N-by-4 may be performed as deriving a value of the boundary strength of filtering in horizontal direction from
• boundary strength of deblocking for the edges of a sub-block that lies inside the current block should be retrieved from corresponding points in reference block.
• internal boundaries inside IBC prediction block may be removed, but unfiltered boundaries could arise inside the prediction block if the reference block covers an area with IBC blocks. In this case, they would not be filtered, because for the current block it would be a solid block predicted by IBC. Therefore, boundary strengths may not calculated for internal boundaries of sub-block edges, but they may be copied from corresponding positions of reference blocks. This may require additional memory to store boundary strength values for every directions possible directions, i.e. horizontal and vertical, and for every sub-block 4x4 that can be addressed be IBC. For example, if total area of accessible pixels to be reference for IBC prediction is 1 CTU, it may need to store boundary strength flags for every color component of every 4-by-4 sub block of 1 CTU.
• calculating of the boundary strength for filtering in vertical direction for the left column with size 4-by-N may be performed based on parameters of each 4-by-4 sub-block, wherein parameters for calculation of each 4-by-4 sub-block may be derived from the corresponding positions of the current block and its left-collocated block of size 4-by-4.
• calculating of the boundary strength for filtering in vertical direction for columns except left with size 4-by-N may be performed based on parameters of each 4-by-4 sub-block derived from corresponding positions of the reference block and its left-collocated block of size 4-by-4.
• calculating of the boundary strength for filtering in vertical direction for columns except left with size 4-by-N may be performed by deriving a value of the boundary strength of filtering in vertical direction from corresponding positions of the reference block.
• calculating of the boundary strength for each 4-by-4 sub block of the current block in horizontal and vertical directions may be performed based on parameters derived from the corresponding positions of the reference block.
• the present disclosure further discloses a method of performing deblocking filtering for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the method performed by a coding device, the method comprising the following steps:
• the deblocking mechanism may be used for ATMVP and Affine sub-blocks.
• the number of sub-blocks will be given by the values of numSbX and numSbY, respectively.
• “at least two sub-blocks” means that the value of numSbX or the value of numSbY is larger than 1.
• the performing deblocking filtering for at least two sub blocks of the predicted block may comprise: when the size of the current block is larger than or equal to a preset size, performing deblocking filtering for at least two sub blocks of the predicted block respectively.
• the size of the at least two sub-blocks may be the size of a grid having a predefined size.
• the predefined size of the at least two sub-blocks may be 8x8.
• the at least two sub-blocks may comprise a first sub-block on the left column of the current block, in the case of vertical filtering, wherein a boundary strength of the first sub-block may be calculated based on the parameters of the current block.
• the at least two sub-blocks may comprise a second sub block on the top row of the current block, in the case of horizontal filtering, wherein the boundary strength of the second sub-block may be calculated based on the parameters of the current block.
• the boundary strength of the other sub-block of the at least two subblocks may be calculated based on the parameters of the reference block.
• the present disclosure further provides a decoder comprising processing circuitry for carrying out the method according to the method as described above.
• the present disclosure further provides an encoder comprising processing circuitry for carrying out the method as described above.
• the present disclosure further provides a computer program product comprising program code for performing the method according to the method as described above when executed on a computer or a processor.
• the present disclosure further provides a decoder, comprising:
• non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processors and storing programming for execution by the processors, wherein the programming, when executed by the processors, configures the decoder to carry out the method as described above.
• the present disclosure further provides an encoder, comprising:
• processors one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processors and storing programming for execution by the processors, wherein the programming, when executed by the processors, configures the encoder to carry out the method as described above.
• the present disclosure further provides a non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying a program code which, when executed by a computer device, causes the computer device to perform the method as described above.
• the present disclosure further provides a decoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the decoder comprising
• a determining unit configured to determine a position of a reference block to obtain the reference block
• a constructing unit configured to construct a prediction for the current block from the reference block
• a deblocking unit configured to perform a deblocking filter for the prediction to obtain a filtered block, the deblocking unit comprising:
• a first calculating unit configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in vertical direction, respectively
• a first performing unit configured to perform deblocking filtering in vertical direction based on the boundary strength in vertical direction
• a second calculating unit configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in horizontal direction, respectively
• a second performing unit configured to perform deblocking filtering based on the boundary strength in horizontal direction
• each sub-block is at least 4x4.
• the present disclosure further provides and encoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the encoder comprising a determining unit configured to determine a position of a reference block to obtain the reference block,
• a constructing unit configured to construct a prediction for the current block from the reference block
• a deblocking unit configured to perform a deblocking filter for the prediction to obtain a filtered block
• the deblocking unit comprising: a first calculating unit configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in vertical direction, respectively,
• a first performing unit configured to perform deblocking filtering in vertical direction based on the boundary strength in vertical direction
• a second calculating unit configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in horizontal direction, respectively
• a second performing unit configured to perform deblocking filtering based on the boundary strength in horizontal direction
• each sub-block is at least 4x4.
• the present disclosure further provides a decoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the decoder comprising:
• an obtaining unit configured to obtain a predicted block for the current block based on a reference block by using intra block copy prediction mode
• a deblocking filtering unit configured to perform deblocking filtering for at least two sub blocks of the predicted block to remove or avoid visible edge artifacts for the image respectively.
• the present disclosure further provides an encoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the encoder comprising:
• an obtaining unit configured to obtain a predicted block for the current block based on a reference block by using intra block copy prediction mode
• a deblocking filtering unit configured to perform deblocking filtering for at least two sub blocks of the predicted block to remove or avoid visible edge artifacts for the image respectively.
• FIG. 1 A is a block diagram showing an example of a video coding system configured to implement embodiments of the invention
• FIG. IB is a block diagram showing another example of a video coding system configured to implement embodiments of the invention.
• FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a video encoder configured to
• FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example structure of a video decoder configured to implement embodiments of the invention
• FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an encoding apparatus or a decoding apparatus
• FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating another example of an encoding apparatus or a
• FIG. 6 is a scheme of Intra Block Copy principles
• FIG. 7 is a scheme of performing calculation of boundary strength of the 4-by-4 sub
• FIG. 8 is an illustration of using sub-blocks for derivation parameters for boundary
• FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example structure of a content supply system 3100, which realizes a content delivery service
• FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a structure of an example of a terminal device
• FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
• FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to a further embodiment of the present disclosure
• FIG. 13 illustrates a decoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
• FIG. 14 illustrates an encoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
• FIG. 15 illustrates a decoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by
• FIG. 16 illustrates an encoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.
• a disclosure in connection with a described method may also hold true for a corresponding device or system configured to perform the method and vice versa.
• a corresponding device may include one or a plurality of units, e.g. functional units, to perform the described one or plurality of method steps (e.g. one unit performing the one or plurality of steps, or a plurality of units each performing one or more of the plurality of steps), even if such one or more units are not explicitly described or illustrated in the figures.
• a specific apparatus is described based on one or a plurality of units, e.g.
• a corresponding method may include one step to perform the functionality of the one or plurality of units (e.g. one step performing the functionality of the one or plurality of units, or a plurality of steps each performing the functionality of one or more of the plurality of units), even if such one or plurality of steps are not explicitly described or illustrated in the figures. Further, it is understood that the features of the various exemplary embodiments and/or aspects described herein may be combined with each other, unless specifically noted otherwise.
• Video coding typically refers to the processing of a sequence of pictures, which form the video or video sequence. Instead of the term“picture” the term“frame” or“image” may be used as synonyms in the field of video coding.
• Video coding (or coding in general) comprises two parts video encoding and video decoding. Video encoding is performed at the source side, typically comprising processing (e.g. by compression) the original video pictures to reduce the amount of data required for representing the video pictures (for more efficient storage and/or transmission). Video decoding is performed at the destination side and typically comprises the inverse processing compared to the encoder to reconstruct the video pictures.
• Embodiments referring to“coding” of video pictures shall be understood to relate to“encoding” or“decoding” of video pictures or respective video sequences.
• the combination of the encoding part and the decoding part is also referred to as CODEC (Coding and Decoding).
• the original video pictures can be reconstructed, i.e. the reconstructed video pictures have the same quality as the original video pictures (assuming no transmission loss or other data loss during storage or transmission).
• further compression e.g. by quantization, is performed, to reduce the amount of data representing the video pictures, which cannot be completely reconstructed at the decoder, i.e. the quality of the reconstructed video pictures is lower or worse compared to the quality of the original video pictures.
• Each picture of a video sequence is typically partitioned into a set of non-overlapping blocks and the coding is typically performed on a block level.
• the video is typically processed, i.e. encoded, on a block (video block) level, e.g.
• the encoder duplicates the decoder processing loop such that both will generate identical predictions (e.g. intra- and inter predictions) and/or re-constructions for processing, i.e. coding, the subsequent blocks.
• a video encoder 20 and a video decoder 30 are described based on FIGs. 1 to 3.
• FIG. 1A is a schematic block diagram illustrating an example coding system 10, e.g. a video coding system 10 (or short coding system 10) that may utilize techniques of this present application.
• Video encoder 20 (or short encoder 20) and video decoder 30 (or short decoder 30) of video coding system 10 represent examples of devices that may be configured to perform techniques in accordance with various examples described in the present application.
• the coding system 10 comprises a source device 12 configured to provide encoded picture data 21 e.g. to a destination device 14 for decoding the encoded picture data 13.
• the source device 12 comprises an encoder 20, and may additionally, i.e. optionally, comprise a picture source 16, a pre-processor (or pre-processing unit) 18, e.g. a picture pre processor 18, and a communication interface or communication unit 22.
• a pre-processor or pre-processing unit 18
• the picture source 16 may comprise or be any kind of picture capturing device, for example a camera for capturing a real-world picture, and/or any kind of a picture generating device, for example a computer-graphics processor for generating a computer animated picture, or any kind of other device for obtaining and/or providing a real-world picture, a computer generated picture (e.g. a screen content, a virtual reality (VR) picture) and/or any
• the picture source may be any kind of memory or storage storing any of the aforementioned pictures.
• the picture or picture data 17 may also be referred to as raw picture or raw picture data 17.
• Pre-processor 18 is configured to receive the (raw) picture data 17 and to perform pre processing on the picture data 17 to obtain a pre-processed picture 19 or pre-processed picture data 19.
• Pre-processing performed by the pre-processor 18 may, e.g., comprise trimming, color format conversion (e.g. from RGB to YCbCr), color correction, or de- noising. It can be understood that the pre-processing unit 18 may be optional component.
• the video encoder 20 is configured to receive the pre-processed picture data 19 and provide encoded picture data 21 (further details will be described below, e.g., based on FIG. 2).
• Communication interface 22 of the source device 12 may be configured to receive the encoded picture data 21 and to transmit the encoded picture data 21 (or any further processed version thereof) over communication channel 13 to another device, e.g. the destination device 14 or any other device, for storage or direct reconstruction.
• the destination device 14 comprises a decoder 30 (e.g. a video decoder 30), and may additionally, i.e. optionally, comprise a communication interface or communication unit 28, a post-processor 32 (or post-processing unit 32) and a display device 34.
• a decoder 30 e.g. a video decoder 30
• the communication interface 28 of the destination device 14 is configured receive the encoded picture data 21 (or any further processed version thereof), e.g. directly from the source device 12 or from any other source, e.g. a storage device, e.g. an encoded picture data storage device, and provide the encoded picture data 21 to the decoder 30.
• a storage device e.g. an encoded picture data storage device
• the communication interface 22 and the communication interface 28 may be configured to transmit or receive the encoded picture data 21 or encoded data 13 via a direct
• the source device 12 and the destination device 14 e.g. a direct wired or wireless connection, or via any kind of network, e.g. a wired or wireless network or any combination thereof, or any kind of private and public network, or any kind of combination thereof.
• the communication interface 22 may be, e.g., configured to package the encoded picture data 21 into an appropriate format, e.g. packets, and/or process the encoded picture data using any kind of transmission encoding or processing for transmission over a communication link or communication network.
• the communication interface 28, forming the counterpart of the communication interface 22 may be, e.g., configured to receive the transmitted data and process the transmission data using any kind of corresponding transmission decoding or processing and/or de-packaging to obtain the encoded picture data 21.
• Both, communication interface 22 and communication interface 28 may be configured as unidirectional communication interfaces as indicated by the arrow for the communication channel 13 in FIG. 1A pointing from the source device 12 to the destination device 14, or bi directional communication interfaces, and may be configured, e.g. to send and receive messages, e.g. to set up a connection, to acknowledge and exchange any other information related to the communication link and/or data transmission, e.g. encoded picture data transmission.
• the decoder 30 is configured to receive the encoded picture data 21 and provide decoded picture data 31 or a decoded picture 31 (further details will be described below, e.g., based on FIG. 3 or FIG. 5).
• the post-processor 32 of destination device 14 is configured to post-process the decoded picture data 31 (also called reconstructed picture data), e.g. the decoded picture 31, to obtain post-processed picture data 33, e.g. a post-processed picture 33.
• the post-processing performed by the post-processing unit 32 may comprise, e.g. color format conversion (e.g. from YCbCr to RGB), color correction, trimming, or re-sampling, or any other processing, e.g. for preparing the decoded picture data 31 for display, e.g. by display device 34.
• the display device 34 of the destination device 14 is configured to receive the post-processed picture data 33 for displaying the picture, e.g. to a user or viewer.
• the display device 34 may be or comprise any kind of display for representing the reconstructed picture, e.g. an integrated or external display or monitor.
• the displays may, e.g. comprise liquid crystal displays (LCD), organic light emitting diodes (OLED) displays, plasma displays, projectors , micro LED displays, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS), digital light processor (DLP) or any kind of other display.
• FIG. 1 A depicts the source device 12 and the destination device 14 as separate devices, embodiments of devices may also comprise both or both functionalities, the source device 12 or corresponding functionality and the destination device 14 or corresponding functionality. In such embodiments the source device 12 or corresponding functionality and the destination device 14 or corresponding functionality may be implemented using the same hardware and/or software or by separate hardware and/or software or any combination thereof.
• the encoder 20 e.g. a video encoder 20
• the decoder 30 e.g. a video decoder 30
• both encoder 20 and decoder 30 may be implemented via processing circuitry as shown in FIG.
• the encoder 20 may be implemented via processing circuitry 46 to embody the various modules as discussed with respect to encoder 20of FIG. 2 and/or any other encoder system or subsystem described herein.
• the decoder 30 may be implemented via processing circuitry 46 to embody the various modules as discussed with respect to decoder 30 of FIG. 3 and/or any other decoder system or subsystem described herein.
• the processing circuitry may be configured to perform the various operations as discussed later. As shown in FIG.
• a device may store instructions for the software in a suitable, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and may execute the instructions in hardware using one or more processors to perform the techniques of this disclosure.
• Either of video encoder 20 and video decoder 30 may be integrated as part of a combined encoder/decoder (CODEC) in a single device, for example, as shown in FIG. IB.
• Source device 12 and destination device 14 may comprise any of a wide range of devices, including any kind of handheld or stationary devices, e.g. notebook or laptop computers, mobile phones, smart phones, tablets or tablet computers, cameras, desktop computers, set top boxes, televisions, display devices, digital media players, video gaming consoles, video streaming devices(such as content services servers or content delivery servers), broadcast receiver device, broadcast transmitter device, or the like and may use no or any kind of operating system.
• the source device 12 and the destination device 14 may be equipped for wireless communication.
• the source device 12 and the destination device 14 may be wireless communication devices.
• video coding system 10 illustrated in FIG. 1 A is merely an example and the techniques of the present application may apply to video coding settings (e.g., video encoding or video decoding) that do not necessarily include any data communication between the encoding and decoding devices.
• data is retrieved from a local memory, streamed over a network, or the like.
• a video encoding device may encode and store data to memory, and/or a video decoding device may retrieve and decode data from memory.
• the encoding and decoding is performed by devices that do not communicate with one another, but simply encode data to memory and/or retrieve and decode data from memory.
• HEVC High-Efficiency Video Coding
• VVC Versatile Video coding
• JCT-VC Joint Collaboration Team on Video Coding
• VCEG ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group
• MPEG ISO/IEC Motion Picture Experts Group
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of an example video encoder 20 that is configured to implement the techniques of the present application.
• the video encoder 20 comprises an input 201 (or input interface 201), a residual calculation unit 204, a transform processing unit 206, a quantization unit 208, an inverse quantization unit 210, and inverse transform processing unit 212, a reconstruction unit 214, a loop filter unit 220, a decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230, a mode selection unit 260, an entropy encoding unit 270 and an output 272 (or output interface 272).
• the mode selection unit 260 may include an inter prediction unit 244, an intra prediction unit 254 and a partitioning unit 262.
• Inter prediction unit 244 may include a motion estimation unit and a motion compensation unit (not shown).
• a video encoder 20 as shown in FIG. 2 may also be referred to as hybrid video encoder or a video encoder according to a hybrid video codec.
• the residual calculation unit 204, the transform processing unit 206, the quantization unit 208, the mode selection unit 260 may be referred to as forming a forward signal path of the encoder 20, whereas the inverse quantization unit 210, the inverse transform processing unit 212, the reconstruction unit 214, the buffer 216, the loop filter 220, the decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230, the inter prediction unit 244 and the intra-prediction unit 254 may be referred to as forming a backward signal path of the video encoder 20, wherein the backward signal path of the video encoder 20 corresponds to the signal path of the decoder (see video decoder 30 in FIG.
• the inverse quantization unit 210, the inverse transform processing unit 212, the reconstruction unit 214, the loop filter 220, the decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230, the inter prediction unit 244 and the intra-prediction unit 254 are also referred to forming the“built-in decoder” of video encoder 20.
• the encoder 20 may be configured to receive, e.g. via input 201, a picture 17 (or picture data 17), e.g. picture of a sequence of pictures forming a video or video sequence.
• the received picture or picture data may also be a pre-processed picture 19 (or pre-processed picture data 19).
• the following description refers to the picture 17.
• the picture 17 may also be referred to as current picture or picture to be coded (in particular in video coding to distinguish the current picture from other pictures, e.g. previously encoded and/or decoded pictures of the same video sequence, i.e. the video sequence which also comprises the current picture).
• a (digital) picture is or can be regarded as a two-dimensional array or matrix of samples with intensity values.
• a sample in the array may also be referred to as pixel (short form of picture element) or a pel.
• the number of samples in horizontal and vertical direction (or axis) of the array or picture define the size and/or resolution of the picture.
• typically three color components are employed, i.e. the picture may be represented or include three sample arrays.
• RBG format or color space a picture comprises a corresponding red, green and blue sample array.
• each pixel is typically represented in a luminance and chrominance format or color space, e.g. YCbCr, which comprises a luminance component indicated by Y (sometimes also L is used instead) and two
• a picture in YCbCr format comprises a luminance sample array of luminance sample values (Y), and two chrominance sample arrays of chrominance values (Cb and Cr).
• Pictures in RGB format may be converted or transformed into YCbCr format and vice versa, the process is also known as color transformation or conversion. If a picture is monochrome, the picture may comprise only a luminance sample array.
• a picture may be, for example, an array of luma samples in monochrome format or an array of luma samples and two corresponding arrays of chroma samples in 4:2:0, 4:2:2, and 4:4:4 colour format.
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 may comprise a picture partitioning unit (not depicted in FIG. 2) configured to partition the picture 17 into a plurality of (typically non-overlapping) picture blocks 203. These blocks may also be referred to as root blocks, macro blocks (H.264/AVC) or coding tree blocks (CTB) or coding tree units (CTU) (H.265/HEVC and VVC).
• the picture-partitioning unit may be configured to use the same block size for all pictures of a video sequence and the corresponding grid defining the block size, or to change the block size between pictures or subsets or groups of pictures, and partition each picture into the corresponding blocks.
• the video encoder may be configured to receive directly a block 203 of the picture 17, e.g. one, several or all blocks forming the picture 17.
• the picture block 203 may also be referred to as current picture block or picture block to be coded.
• the picture block 203 again is or can be regarded as a two-dimensional array or matrix of samples with intensity values (sample values), although of smaller dimension than the picture 17.
• the block 203 may comprise, e.g., one sample array (e.g. a luma array in case of a monochrome picture 17, or a luma or chroma array in case of a color picture) or three sample arrays (e.g. a luma and two chroma arrays in case of a color picture 17) or any other number and/or kind of arrays depending on the color format applied.
• the number of samples in horizontal and vertical direction (or axis) of the block 203 define the size of block 203.
• a block may, for example, an MxN (M-column by N-row) array of samples, or an MxN array of transform coefficients.
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 as shown in FIG. 2 may be configured to encode the picture 17 block by block, e.g. the encoding and prediction is performed per block 203.
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 as shown in FIG. 2 may be further configured to partition and/or encode the picture by using slices (also referred to as video slices), wherein a picture may be partitioned into or encoded using one or more slices (typically non
• each slice may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more groups of blocks (e.g. tiles (H.265/HEVC and VVC) or bricks (VVC)).
• blocks e.g. CTUs
• groups of blocks e.g. tiles (H.265/HEVC and VVC) or bricks (VVC)).
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 as shown in FIG. 2 may be further configured to partition and/or encode the picture by using slices/tile groups (also referred to as video tile groups) and/or tiles (also referred to as video tiles), wherein a picture may be partitioned into or encoded using one or more slices/tile groups (typically non-overlapping), and each slice/tile group may comprise, e.g. one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more tiles, wherein each tile, e.g. may be of rectangular shape and may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs), e.g. complete or fractional blocks.
• slices/tile groups also referred to as video tile groups
• tiles also referred to as video tiles
• each slice/tile group may comprise, e.g. one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more tiles, wherein each tile, e.g. may be of rectangular shape and may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs), e.g
• the residual calculation unit 204 may be configured to calculate a residual block 205 (also referred to as residual 205) based on the picture block 203 and a prediction block 265 (further details about the prediction block 265 are provided later), e.g. by subtracting sample values of the prediction block 265 from sample values of the picture block 203, sample by sample (pixel by pixel) to obtain the residual block 205 in the sample domain.
• a residual block 205 also referred to as residual 205
• a prediction block 265 further details about the prediction block 265 are provided later
• the transform processing unit 206 may be configured to apply a transform, e.g. a discrete cosine transform (DCT) or discrete sine transform (DST), on the sample values of the residual block 205 to obtain transform coefficients 207 in a transform domain.
• a transform e.g. a discrete cosine transform (DCT) or discrete sine transform (DST)
• DCT discrete cosine transform
• DST discrete sine transform
• the transform processing unit 206 may be configured to apply integer approximations of DCT/DST, such as the transforms specified for H.265/HEVC. Compared to an orthogonal DCT transform, such integer approximations are typically scaled by a certain factor. In order to preserve the norm of the residual block which is processed by forward and inverse transforms, additional scaling factors are applied as part of the transform process.
• the scaling factors are typically chosen based on certain constraints like scaling factors being a power of two for shift operations, bit depth of the transform coefficients, tradeoff between accuracy and implementation costs, etc. Specific scaling factors are, for example, specified for the inverse transform, e.g. by inverse transform processing unit 212 (and the corresponding inverse transform, e.g. by inverse transform processing unit 312 at video decoder 30) and corresponding scaling factors for the forward transform, e.g. by transform processing unit 206, at an encoder 20 may be specified accordingly.
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 may be configured to output transform parameters, e.g. a type of transform or transforms, e.g.
• the video decoder 30 may receive and use the transform parameters for decoding.
• the quantization unit 208 may be configured to quantize the transform coefficients 207 to obtain quantized coefficients 209, e.g. by applying scalar quantization or vector quantization.
• the quantized coefficients 209 may also be referred to as quantized transform coefficients 209 or quantized residual coefficients 209.
• the quantization process may reduce the bit depth associated with some or all of the transform coefficients 207. For example, an n-bit transform coefficient may be rounded down to an m-bit Transform coefficient during quantization, where n is greater than m.
• the degree of quantization may be modified by adjusting a quantization parameter (QP). For example for scalar quantization, different scaling may be applied to achieve finer or coarser quantization. Smaller quantization step sizes correspond to finer quantization, whereas larger quantization step sizes correspond to coarser quantization.
• the applicable quantization step size may be indicated by a quantization parameter (QP).
• the quantization parameter may for example be an index to a predefined set of applicable quantization step sizes.
• small quantization parameters may correspond to fine quantization (small quantization step sizes) and large quantization parameters may correspond to coarse quantization (large quantization step sizes) or vice versa.
• the quantization may include division by a quantization step size and a corresponding and/or the inverse dequantization, e.g. by inverse quantization unit 210, may include multiplication by the quantization step size.
• Embodiments according to some standards, e.g. HEVC may be configured to use a quantization parameter to determine the quantization step size.
• the quantization step size may be calculated based on a quantization parameter using a fixed-point approximation of an equation including division.
• Additional scaling factors may be introduced for quantization and dequantization to restore the norm of the residual block, which might get modified because of the scaling used in the fixed point approximation of the equation for quantization step size and quantization parameter.
• the scaling of the inverse transform and dequantization might be combined.
• customized quantization tables may be used and signaled from an encoder to a decoder, e.g. in a bitstream.
• the quantization is a lossy operation, wherein the loss increases with increasing quantization step sizes.
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 may be configured to output quantization parameters (QP), e.g. directly or encoded via the entropy encoding unit 270, so that, e.g., the video decoder 30 may receive and apply the quantization parameters for decoding.
• QP quantization parameters
• the inverse quantization unit 210 is configured to apply the inverse quantization of the quantization unit 208 on the quantized coefficients to obtain dequantized coefficients 211, e.g. by applying the inverse of the quantization scheme applied by the quantization unit 208 based on or using the same quantization step size as the quantization unit 208.
• the dequantized coefficients 211 may also be referred to as dequantized residual coefficients 211 and correspond - although typically not identical to the transform coefficients due to the loss by quantization - to the transform coefficients 207.
• the inverse transform processing unit 212 is configured to apply the inverse transform of the transform applied by the transform processing unit 206, e.g. an inverse discrete cosine transform (DCT) or inverse discrete sine transform (DST) or other inverse transforms, to obtain a reconstructed residual block 213 (or corresponding dequantized coefficients 213) in the sample domain.
• the reconstructed residual block 213 may also be referred to as transform block 213.
• the reconstruction unit 214 (e.g. adder or summer 214) is configured to add the transform block 213 (i.e. reconstructed residual block 213) to the prediction block 265 to obtain a reconstructed block 215 in the sample domain, e.g. by adding - sample by sample - the sample values of the reconstructed residual block 213 and the sample values of the prediction block 265.
• the loop filter unit 220 (or short“loop filter” 220), is configured to filter the reconstructed block 215 to obtain a filtered block 221, or in general, to filter reconstructed samples to obtain filtered sample values.
• the loop filter unit is, e.g., configured to smooth pixel transitions, or otherwise improve the video quality.
• the loop filter unit 220 may comprise one or more loop filters such as a de-blocking filter, a sample-adaptive offset (SAO) filter or one or more other filters, e.g. an adaptive loop filter (ALF), a noise suppression filter (NSF), or any combination thereof.
• the loop filter unit 220 may comprise a de-blocking filter, a SAO filter and an ALF filter.
• the order of the filtering process may be the deblocking filter, SAO and ALF.
• a process called the luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) namely, the adaptive in-loop reshaper
• LMCS luma mapping with chroma scaling
• This process is performed before deblocking.
• the deblocking filter process may be also applied to internal sub-block edges, e.g. affine sub-blocks edges, ATMVP sub-blocks edges, sub-block transform (SBT) edges and intra sub-partition (ISP) edges.
• the loop filter unit 220 is shown in FIG. 2 as being an in loop filter, in other configurations, the loop filter unit 220 may be implemented as a post loop filter.
• the filtered block 221 may also be referred to as filtered reconstructed block 221.
• Embodiments of the video encoder 20 may be configured to output loop filter parameters (such as SAO filter parameters or ALF filter parameters or LMCS parameters), e.g. directly or encoded via the entropy encoding unit 270, so that, e.g., a decoder 30 may receive and apply the same loop filter parameters or respective loop filters for decoding.
• loop filter parameters such as SAO filter parameters or ALF filter parameters or LMCS parameters
• the decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230 may be a memory that stores reference pictures, or in general reference picture data, for encoding video data by video encoder 20.
• the DPB 230 may be formed by any of a variety of memory devices, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), including synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), magnetoresistive RAM
• the decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230 may be configured to store one or more filtered blocks 221.
• the decoded picture buffer 230 may be further configured to store other previously filtered blocks, e.g. previously reconstructed and filtered blocks 221, of the same current picture or of different pictures, e.g. previously reconstructed pictures, and may provide complete previously reconstructed, i.e. decoded, pictures (and corresponding reference blocks and samples) and/or a partially reconstructed current picture (and corresponding reference blocks and samples), for example for inter prediction.
• the decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230 may be also configured to store one or more unfiltered reconstructed blocks 215, or in general unfiltered reconstructed samples, e.g. if the reconstructed block 215 is not filtered by loop filter unit 220, or any other further processed version of the reconstructed blocks or samples.
• the mode selection unit 260 comprises partitioning unit 262, inter-prediction unit 244 and intra-prediction unit 254, and is configured to receive or obtain original picture data, e.g. an original block 203 (current block 203 of the current picture 17), and reconstructed picture data, e.g. filtered and/or unfiltered reconstructed samples or blocks of the same (current) picture and/or from one or a plurality of previously decoded pictures, e.g. from decoded picture buffer 230 or other buffers (e.g. line buffer, not shown).
• the reconstructed picture data is used as reference picture data for prediction, e.g. inter-prediction or intra-prediction, to obtain a prediction block 265 or predictor 265.
• Mode selection unit 260 may be configured to determine or select a partitioning for a current block prediction mode (including no partitioning) and a prediction mode (e.g. an intra or inter prediction mode) and generate a corresponding prediction block 265, which is used for the calculation of the residual block 205 and for the reconstruction of the reconstructed block 215.
• Embodiments of the mode selection unit 260 may be configured to select the partitioning and the prediction mode (e.g. from those supported by or available for mode selection unit 260), which provide the best match or in other words the minimum residual (minimum residual means better compression for transmission or storage), or a minimum signaling overhead (minimum signaling overhead means better compression for transmission or storage), or which considers or balances both.
• the mode selection unit 260 may be configured to determine the partitioning and prediction mode based on rate distortion optimization (RDO), i.e. select the prediction mode, which provides a minimum rate distortion.
• RDO rate distortion optimization
• Terms like“best”, “minimum”,“optimum” etc. in this context do not necessarily refer to an overall“best”, “minimum”,“optimum”, etc. but may also refer to the fulfillment of a termination or selection criterion like a value exceeding or falling below a threshold or other constraints leading potentially to a“sub-optimum selection” but reducing complexity and processing time.
• the partitioning unit 262 may be configured to partition a picture from a video sequence into a sequence of coding tree units (CTUs), and the CTU 203 may be further partitioned into smaller block partitions or sub-blocks (which form again blocks), e.g.
• CTUs coding tree units
• quad-tree-partitioning QT
• binary partitioning BT
• triple-tree- partitioning TT
• mode selection comprises the selection of the tree-structure of the partitioned block 203 and the prediction modes are applied to each of the block partitions or sub-blocks.
• partitioning e.g. by partitioning unit 260
• prediction processing by inter-prediction unit 244 and intra-prediction unit 254
• the partitioning unit 262 may be configured to partition a picture from a video sequence into a sequence of coding tree units (CTUs), and the partitioning unit 262 may partition (or split) a coding tree unit (CTU) 203 into smaller partitions, e.g. smaller blocks of square or rectangular size.
• CTU coding tree unit
• a CTU consists of an N> ⁇ N block of luma samples together with two corresponding blocks of chroma samples.
• the maximum allowed size of the luma block in a CTU is specified to be 128 ⁇ 128 in the developing versatile video coding (VVC), but it can be specified to be value rather than 128x128 in the future, for example, 256x256.
• the CTUs of a picture may be clustered/grouped as slices/tile groups, tiles or bricks.
• a tile covers a rectangular region of a picture, and a tile can be divided into one or more bricks.
• a brick consists of a number of CTU rows within a tile.
• a tile that is not partitioned into multiple bricks can be referred to as a brick.
• a brick is a true subset of a tile and is not referred to as a tile..
• There are two modes of tile groups are supported in VVC, namely the raster-scan slice/tile group mode and the rectangular slice mode. In the raster-scan tile group mode, a slice/tile group contains a sequence of tiles in tile raster scan of a picture.
• a slice contains a number of bricks of a picture that collectively form a rectangular region of the picture.
• the bricks within a rectangular slice are in the order of brick raster scan of the slice.
• These smaller blocks (which may also be referred to as sub-blocks) may be further partitioned into even smaller partitions.
• This is also referred to tree-partitioning or hierarchical tree-partitioning, wherein a root block, e.g. at root tree-level 0 (hierarchy-level 0, depth 0), may be recursively partitioned, e.g.
• Blocks, which are not further partitioned, are also referred to as leaf-blocks or leaf nodes of the tree.
• a tree using partitioning into two partitions is referred to as binary-tree (BT)
• BT binary-tree
• TT ternary-tree
• QT quad-tree
• a coding tree unit may be or comprise a CTB of luma samples, two corresponding CTBs of chroma samples of a picture that has three sample arrays, or a CTB of samples of a monochrome picture or a picture that is coded using three separate colour planes and syntax structures used to code the samples.
• a coding tree block may be an NxN block of samples for some value of N such that the division of a component into CTBs is a partitioning.
• a coding unit may be or comprise a coding block of luma samples, two corresponding coding blocks of chroma samples of a picture that has three sample arrays, or a coding block of samples of a monochrome picture or a picture that is coded using three separate colour planes and syntax structures used to code the samples.
• a coding block may be an MxN block of samples for some values of M and N such that the division of a CTB into coding blocks is a partitioning.
• a coding tree unit may be split into CUs by using a quad-tree structure denoted as coding tree.
• the decision whether to code a picture area using inter-picture (temporal) or intra-picture (spatial) prediction is made at the leaf CU level.
• Each leaf CU can be further split into one, two or four PUs according to the PU splitting type. Inside one PU, the same prediction process is applied and the relevant information is transmitted to the decoder on a PU basis.
• a leaf CU can be partitioned into transform units (TUs) according to another quadtree structure similar to the coding tree for the CU.
• VVC Versatile Video Coding
• a combined Quad-tree nested multi type tree using binary and ternary splits segmentation structure for example used to partition a coding tree unit.
• a CU can have either a square or a rectangular shape.
• the coding tree unit (CTU) is first partitioned by a quaternary tree. Then the quaternary tree leaf nodes can be further partitioned by a multi type tree structure.
• the multi type tree leaf nodes are called coding units (CUs), and unless the CU is too large for the maximum transform length, this segmentation is used for prediction and transform processing without any further partitioning. This means that, in most cases, the CU, PU and TU have the same block size in the quadtree with nested multi-type tree coding block structure.
• VVC develops a unique signaling mechanism of the partition splitting information in quadtree with nested multi-type tree coding tree structure.
• a coding tree unit (CTU) is treated as the root of a quaternary tree and is first partitioned by a quaternary tree structure.
• Each quaternary tree leaf node (when sufficiently large to allow it) is then further partitioned by a multi-type tree structure.
• a first flag is signalled to indicate whether the node is further partitioned; when a node is further partitioned, a second flag (mtt split cu vertical flag) is signalled to indicate the splitting direction, and then a third flag (mtt split cu binary flag) is signalled to indicate whether the split is a binary split or a ternary split. Based on the values of mtt split cu vertical flag and
• the multi-type tree-slitting mode (MttSplitMode) of a CU can be derived by a decoder based on a predefined rule or a table. It should be noted, for a certain design, for example, 64x64 Luma block and 32x32 Chroma pipelining design in VVC hardware decoders, TT split is forbidden when either width or height of a luma coding block is larger than 64, as shown in Figure 6. TT split is also forbidden when either width or height of a chroma coding block is larger than 32.
• the pipelining design will divide a picture into Virtual pipeline data units s(VPDUs) which are defined as non-overlapping units in a picture.
• VPDU size is roughly proportional to the buffer size in most pipeline stages, so it is important to keep the VPDU size small.
• the VPDU size can be set to maximum transform block (TB) size.
• TB maximum transform block
• TT ternary tree
• BT binary tree
• the Intra Sub-Partitions (ISP) tool may divide luma intra-predicted blocks vertically or horizontally into 2 or 4 sub-partitions depending on the block size.
• the mode selection unit 260 of video encoder 20 may be configured to perform any combination of the partitioning techniques described herein.
• the video encoder 20 is configured to determine or select the best or an optimum prediction mode from a set of (e.g. pre-determined) prediction modes.
• the set of prediction modes may comprise, e.g., intra-prediction modes and/or inter-prediction modes.
• the set of intra-prediction modes may comprise 35 different intra-prediction modes, e.g. non- directional modes like DC (or mean) mode and planar mode, or directional modes, e.g. as defined in HEVC, or may comprise 67 different intra-prediction modes, e.g. non-directional modes like DC (or mean) mode and planar mode, or directional modes, e.g. as defined for VVC.
• non-directional modes e.g. non-directional modes like DC (or mean) mode and planar mode
• directional modes e.g. as defined for VVC.
• several conventional angular intra prediction modes are adaptively replaced with wide-angle intra prediction modes for the non-square blocks, e.g. as defined in VVC.
• to avoid division operations for DC prediction only the longer side is used to compute the average for non-square blocks.
• the results of intra prediction of planar mode may be further modified by a position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) method.
• PDPC position dependent intra prediction combination
• the intra-prediction unit 254 is configured to use reconstructed samples of neighboring blocks of the same current picture to generate an intra-prediction block 265 according to an intra-prediction mode of the set of intra-prediction modes.
• the intra prediction unit 254 (or in general the mode selection unit 260) is further configured to output intra-prediction parameters (or in general information indicative of the selected intra prediction mode for the block) to the entropy encoding unit 270 in form of syntax
• the video decoder 30 may receive and use the prediction parameters for decoding.
• the set of (or possible) inter-prediction modes depends on the available reference pictures (i.e. previous at least partially decoded pictures, e.g. stored in DBP 230) and other inter prediction parameters, e.g. whether the whole reference picture or only a part, e.g. a search window area around the area of the current block, of the reference picture is used for searching for a best matching reference block, and/or e.g. whether pixel interpolation is applied, e.g. half/semi-pel, quarter-pel and/or 1/16 pel interpolation, or not.
• other inter prediction parameters e.g. whether the whole reference picture or only a part, e.g. a search window area around the area of the current block, of the reference picture is used for searching for a best matching reference block, and/or e.g. whether pixel interpolation is applied, e.g. half/semi-pel, quarter-pel and/or 1/16 pel interpolation, or not.
• skip mode direct mode
• direct mode direct mode
• other inter prediction mode may be applied.
• the merge candidate list of such mode is constructed by including the following five types of candidates in order: Spatial MVP from spatial neighbor CUs, Temporal MVP from collocated CUs, History-based MVP from an FIFO table, Pairwise average MVP and Zero MVs.
• a bilateral-matching based decoder side motion vector refinement may be applied to increase the accuracy of the MVs of the merge mode.
• Merge mode with MVD (MMVD)
• a MMVD flag is signaled right after sending a skip flag and merge flag to specify whether MMVD mode is used for a CU.
• a CU-level adaptive motion vector resolution (AMVR) scheme may be applied.
• AMVR allows MVD of the CU to be coded in different precision.
• the MVDs of the current CU can be adaptively selected.
• the combined inter/intra prediction (CUP) mode may be applied to the current CU. Weighted averaging of the inter and intra prediction signals is performed to obtain the CUP prediction.
• the affine motion field of the block is described by motion information of two control point (4-parameter) or three control point motion vectors (6-parameter) sub-block-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP), which is similar to the temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) in HEVC, but predicts the motion vectors of the sub-CUs within the current CU.
• Bi-directional optical flow (BDOF), previously referred to as BIO, is a simpler version that requires much less computation, especially in terms of number of multiplications and the size of the multiplier.
• Triangle partition mode in such a mode, a CU is split evenly into two triangle-shaped partitions, using either the diagonal split or the anti-diagonal split. Besides, the bi-prediction mode is extended beyond simple averaging to allow weighted averaging of the two prediction signals.
• the inter prediction unit 244 may include a motion estimation (ME) unit and a motion compensation (MC) unit (both not shown in FIG.2).
• the motion estimation unit may be configured to receive or obtain the picture block 203 (current picture block 203 of the current picture 17) and a decoded picture 231, or at least one or a plurality of previously
• reconstructed blocks e.g. reconstructed blocks of one or a plurality of other/different previously decoded pictures 231, for motion estimation.
• a video sequence may comprise the current picture and the previously decoded pictures 231, or in other words, the current picture and the previously decoded pictures 231 may be part of or form a sequence of pictures forming a video sequence.
• the encoder 20 may, e.g., be configured to select a reference block from a plurality of reference blocks of the same or different pictures of the plurality of other pictures and provide a reference picture (or reference picture index) and/or an offset (spatial offset) between the position (x, y coordinates) of the reference block and the position of the current block as inter prediction parameters to the motion estimation unit.
• This offset is also called motion vector (MV).
• the motion compensation unit is configured to obtain, e.g. receive, an inter prediction parameter and to perform inter prediction based on or using the inter prediction parameter to obtain an inter prediction block 265.
• Motion compensation, performed by the motion compensation unit may involve fetching or generating the prediction block based on the motion/block vector determined by motion estimation, possibly performing interpolations to sub-pixel precision.
• Interpolation filtering may generate additional pixel samples from known pixel samples, thus potentially increasing the number of candidate prediction blocks that may be used to code a picture block.
• the motion compensation unit may locate the prediction block to which the motion vector points in one of the reference picture lists.
• the motion compensation unit may also generate syntax elements associated with the blocks and video slices for use by video decoder 30 in decoding the picture blocks of the video slice.
• syntax elements associated with the blocks and video slices for use by video decoder 30 in decoding the picture blocks of the video slice.
• tile groups and/or tiles and respective syntax elements may be generated or used.
• the entropy encoding unit 270 is configured to apply, for example, an entropy encoding algorithm or scheme (e.g. a variable length coding (VLC) scheme, an context adaptive VLC scheme (CAVLC), an arithmetic coding scheme, a binarization, a context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), syntax-based context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding
• VLC variable length coding
• CAVLC context adaptive VLC scheme
• CABAC context adaptive binary arithmetic coding
• CABAC syntax-based context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding
• SBAC probability interval partitioning entropy
• PIPE probability interval partitioning entropy
• a non-transform based encoder 20 can quantize the residual signal directly without the transform processing unit 206 for certain blocks or frames.
• a non-transform based encoder 20 can quantize the residual signal directly without the transform processing unit 206 for certain blocks or frames.
• an encoder 20 can have the quantization unit 208 and the inverse
• FIG. 3 shows an example of a video decoder 30 that is configured to implement the techniques of this present application.
• the video decoder 30 is configured to receive encoded picture data 21 (e.g. encoded bitstream 21), e.g. encoded by encoder 20, to obtain a decoded picture 331.
• the encoded picture data or bitstream comprises information for decoding the encoded picture data, e.g. data that represents picture blocks of an encoded video slice (and/or tile groups or tiles) and associated syntax elements.
• the decoder 30 comprises an entropy decoding unit 304, an inverse quantization unit 310, an inverse transform processing unit 312, a reconstruction unit 314 (e.g. a summer 314), a loop filter 320, a decoded picture buffer (DBP) 330, a mode application unit 360, an inter prediction unit 344 and an intra prediction unit 354.
• Inter prediction unit 344 may be or include a motion compensation unit.
• Video decoder 30 may, in some examples, perform a decoding pass generally reciprocal to the encoding pass described with respect to video encoder 100 from FIG. 2.
• the inverse quantization unit 210, the inverse transform processing unit 212, the reconstruction unit 214, the loop filter 220, the decoded picture buffer (DPB) 230, the inter prediction unit 344 and the intra prediction unit 354 are also referred to as forming the“built-in decoder” of video encoder 20.
• the inverse quantization unit 310 may be identical in function to the inverse quantization unit 110
• the inverse transform processing unit 312 may be identical in function to the inverse transform processing unit 212
• the reconstruction unit 314 may be identical in function to reconstruction unit 214
• the loop filter 320 may be identical in function to the loop filter 220
• the decoded picture buffer 330 may be identical in function to the decoded picture buffer 230. Therefore, the explanations provided for the respective units and functions of the video 20 encoder apply correspondingly to the respective units and functions of the video decoder 30.
• the entropy decoding unit 304 is configured to parse the bitstream 21 (or in general encoded picture data 21) and perform, for example, entropy decoding to the encoded picture data 21 to obtain, e.g., quantized coefficients 309 and/or decoded coding parameters (not shown in FIG. 3), e.g. any or all of inter prediction parameters (e.g. reference picture index and motion vector), intra prediction parameter (e.g. intra prediction mode or index), transform
• Entropy decoding unit 304 maybe configured to apply the decoding algorithms or schemes corresponding to the encoding schemes as described with regard to the entropy-encoding unit 270 of the encoder 20. Entropy decoding unit 304 may be further configured to provide inter prediction parameters, intra prediction parameter and/or other syntax elements to the mode application unit 360 and other parameters to other units of the decoder 30. Video decoder 30 may receive the syntax elements at the video slice level and/or the video block level. In addition or as an alternative to slices and respective syntax elements, tile groups and/or tiles and respective syntax elements may be received and/or used.
• the inverse quantization unit 310 may be configured to receive quantization parameters (QP) (or in general information related to the inverse quantization) and quantized coefficients from the encoded picture data 21 (e.g. by parsing and/or decoding, e.g. by entropy decoding unit 304) and to apply based on the quantization parameters an inverse quantization on the decoded quantized coefficients 309 to obtain dequantized coefficients 311, which may also be referred to as transform coefficients 311.
• the inverse quantization process may include use of a quantization parameter determined by video encoder 20 for each video block in the video slice (or tile or tile group) to determine a degree of quantization and, likewise, a degree of inverse quantization that should be applied.
• Inverse transform processing unit 312 may be configured to receive dequantized coefficients 311, also referred to as transform coefficients 311, and to apply a transform to the dequantized coefficients 311 in order to obtain reconstructed residual blocks 213 in the sample domain.
• the reconstructed residual blocks 213 may also be referred to as transform blocks 313.
• the transform may be an inverse transform, e.g., an inverse DCT, an inverse DST, an inverse integer transform, or a conceptually similar inverse transform process.
• the inverse transform processing unit 312 may be further configured to receive transform parameters or corresponding information from the encoded picture data 21 (e.g. by parsing and/or decoding, e.g. by entropy decoding unit 304) to determine the transform to be applied to the dequantized coefficients 311.
• the reconstruction unit 314 (e.g. adder or summer 314) may be configured to add the reconstructed residual block 313, to the prediction block 365 to obtain a reconstructed block 315 in the sample domain, e.g. by adding the sample values of the reconstructed residual block 313 and the sample values of the prediction block 365.
• the loop filter unit 320 (either in the coding loop or after the coding loop) is configured to filter the reconstructed block 315 to obtain a filtered block 321, e.g. to smooth pixel transitions, or otherwise improve the video quality.
• the loop filter unit 320 may comprise one or more loop filters such as a de-blocking filter, a sample-adaptive offset (SAO) filter or one or more other filters, e.g. an adaptive loop filter (ALF), a noise suppression filter (NSF), or any combination thereof.
• the loop filter unit 220 may comprise a de-blocking filter, a SAO filter and an ALF filter. The order of the filtering process may be the deblocking filter, SAO and ALF.
• LMCS luma mapping with chroma scaling
• SBT sub-block transform
• ISP intra sub-partition
• decoded video blocks 321 of a picture are then stored in decoded picture buffer 330, which stores the decoded pictures 331 as reference pictures for subsequent motion compensation for other pictures and/or for output respectively display.
• the decoder 30 is configured to output the decoded picture 311, e.g. via output 312, for presentation or viewing to a user.
• the inter prediction unit 344 may be identical to the inter prediction unit 244 (in particular to the motion compensation unit) and the intra prediction unit 354 may be identical to the inter prediction unit 254 in function, and performs split or partitioning decisions and prediction based on the partitioning and/or prediction parameters or respective information received from the encoded picture data 21 (e.g. by parsing and/or decoding, e.g. by entropy decoding unit 304).
• Mode application unit 360 may be configured to perform the prediction (intra or inter prediction) per block based on reconstructed pictures, blocks or respective samples (filtered or unfiltered) to obtain the prediction block 365.
• intra prediction unit 354 of mode application unit 360 is configured to generate prediction block 365 for a picture block of the current video slice based on a signaled intra prediction mode and data from previously decoded blocks of the current picture.
• inter prediction unit 344 e.g. motion compensation unit
• the prediction blocks may be produced from one of the reference pictures within one of the reference picture lists.
• Video decoder 30 may construct the reference frame lists, List 0 and List 1, using default construction techniques based on reference pictures stored in DPB 330.
• the same or similar may be applied for or by embodiments using tile groups (e.g. video tile groups) and/or tiles (e.g. video tiles) in addition or alternatively to slices (e.g. video slices), e.g. a video may be coded using I, P or B tile groups and /or tiles.
• Mode application unit 360 is configured to determine the prediction information for a video block of the current video slice by parsing the motion vectors or related information and other syntax elements, and uses the prediction information to produce the prediction blocks for the current video block being decoded. For example, the mode application unit 360 uses some of the received syntax elements to determine a prediction mode (e.g., intra or inter prediction) used to code the video blocks of the video slice, an inter prediction slice type (e.g., B slice, P slice, or GPB slice), construction information for one or more of the reference picture lists for the slice, motion vectors for each inter encoded video block of the slice, inter prediction status for each inter coded video block of the slice, and other information to decode the video blocks in the current video slice.
• a prediction mode e.g., intra or inter prediction
• an inter prediction slice type e.g., B slice, P slice, or GPB slice
• construction information for one or more of the reference picture lists for the slice motion vectors for each inter encoded video block of the slice, inter prediction status for each
• tile groups e.g. video tile groups
• tiles e.g. video tiles
• slices e.g. video slices
• Embodiments of the video decoder 30 as shown in FIG. 3 may be configured to partition and/or decode the picture by using slices (also referred to as video slices), wherein a picture may be partitioned into or decoded using one or more slices (typically non-overlapping), and each slice may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more groups of blocks (e.g. tiles (H.265/HEVC and VVC) or bricks (VVC)).
• slices also referred to as video slices
• each slice may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more groups of blocks (e.g. tiles (H.265/HEVC and VVC) or bricks (VVC)).
• Embodiments of the video decoder 30 as shown in FIG. 3 may be configured to partition and/or decode the picture by using slices/tile groups (also referred to as video tile groups) and/or tiles (also referred to as video tiles), wherein a picture may be partitioned into or decoded using one or more slices/tile groups (typically non-overlapping), and each slice/tile group may comprise, e.g. one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more tiles, wherein each tile, e.g. may be of rectangular shape and may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs), e.g. complete or fractional blocks.
• slices/tile groups also referred to as video tile groups
• tiles also referred to as video tiles
• each slice/tile group may comprise, e.g. one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs) or one or more tiles, wherein each tile, e.g. may be of rectangular shape and may comprise one or more blocks (e.g. CTUs), e
• the decoder 30 can be used to decode the encoded picture data 21.
• the decoder 30 can produce the output video stream without the loop-filtering unit 320.
• a non-transform based decoder 30 can inverse-quantize the residual signal directly without the inverse-transform processing unit 312 for certain blocks or frames.
• the video decoder 30 can have the inverse-quantization unit 310 and the inverse-transform processing unit 312 combined into a single unit.
• a processing result of a current step may be further processed and then output to the next step.
• a further operation such as Clip or shift, may be performed on the processing result of the interpolation filtering, motion vector derivation or loop filtering.
• the value of motion vector is constrained to a predefined range according to its representing bit. If the representing bit of motion vector is bitDepth, then the range is - 2 A (bitDepth-l) ⁇ 2 A (bitDepth-l)-l, where“ A ” means exponentiation. For example, if bitDepth is set equal to 16, the range is -32768 ⁇ 32767; if bitDepth is set equal to 18, the range is - 131072-131071.
• the value of the derived motion vector (e.g. the MVs of four 4x4 sub-blocks within one 8x8 block) is constrained such that the max difference between integer parts of the four 4x4 sub-block MVs is no more than N pixels, such as no more than 1 pixel.
• N pixels such as no more than 1 pixel.
• FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a video coding device 400 according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
• the video coding device 400 is suitable for implementing the disclosed embodiments as described herein.
• the video coding device 400 may be a decoder such as video decoder 30 of FIG. 1 A or an encoder such as video encoder 20 of FIG. 1A.
• the video coding device 400 comprises ingress ports 410 (or input ports 410) and receiver units (Rx) 420 for receiving data; a processor, logic unit, or central processing unit (CPU)
• the video coding device 400 may also comprise optical-to-electrical (OE) components and electrical-to-optical (EO) components coupled to the ingress ports 410, the receiver units 420, the transmitter units 440, and the egress ports 450 for egress or ingress of optical or electrical signals.
• OE optical-to-electrical
• EO electrical-to-optical
• the processor 430 is implemented by hardware and software.
• the processor 430 may be implemented as one or more CPU chips, cores (e.g., as a multi-core processor), FPGAs, ASICs, and DSPs.
• the processor 430 is in communication with the ingress ports 410, receiver units 420, transmitter units 440, egress ports 450, and memory 460.
• the processor 430 comprises a coding module 470.
• the coding module 470 implements the disclosed embodiments described above. For instance, the coding module 470 implements, processes, prepares, or provides the various coding operations. The inclusion of the coding module 470 therefore provides a substantial improvement to the functionality of the video coding device 400 and effects a transformation of the video coding device 400 to a different state.
• the coding module 470 is implemented as instructions stored in the memory 460 and executed by the processor 430.
• the memory 460 may comprise one or more disks, tape drives, and solid-state drives and may be used as an over-flow data storage device, to store programs when such programs are selected for execution, and to store instructions and data that are read during program execution.
• the memory 460 may be, for example, volatile and/or non-volatile and may be a read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM), and/or static random-access memory (SRAM).
• FIG. 5 is a simplified block diagram of an apparatus 500 that may be used as either or both of the source device 12 and the destination device 14 from FIG. 1 according to an exemplary embodiment.
• a processor 502 in the apparatus 500 can be a central processing unit.
• the processor 502 can be any other type of device, or multiple devices, capable of manipulating or processing information now existing or hereafter developed.
• the disclosed implementations can be practiced with a single processor as shown, e.g., the processor 502, advantages in speed and efficiency can be achieved using more than one processor.
• a memory 504 in the apparatus 500 can be a read only memory (ROM) device or a random access memory (RAM) device in an implementation. Any other suitable type of storage device can be used as the memory 504.
• the memory 504 can include code and data 506 that is accessed by the processor 502 using a bus 512.
• the memory 504 can further include an operating system 508 and application programs 510, the application programs 510 including at least one program that permits the processor 502 to perform the methods described here.
• the application programs 510 can include applications 1 through N, which further include a video coding application that performs the methods described here.
• the apparatus 500 can also include one or more output devices, such as a display 518.
• the display 518 may be, in one example, a touch sensitive display that combines a display with a touch sensitive element that is operable to sense touch inputs.
• the display 518 can be coupled to the processor 502 via the bus 512.
• the bus 512 of the apparatus 500 can be composed of multiple buses.
• the secondary storage 514 can be directly coupled to the other components of the apparatus 500 or can be accessed via a network and can comprise a single integrated unit such as a memory card or multiple units such as multiple memory cards.
• the apparatus 500 can thus be implemented in a wide variety of configurations.
• the deblocking filtering process is similar to those in HEVC.
• the deblocking filtering process is applied on a CU boundaries, transform subblock boundaries and prediction subblock boundaries.
• the prediction subblock boundaries include the prediction unit boundaries introduced by the SbTMVP and affine modes
• the transform subblock boundaries include the transform unit boundaries introduced by SBT and ISP modes, and transforms due to implicit split of large CUs.
• the processing order of the deblocking filter is defined as horizontal filtering for vertical edges for the entire picture first, followed by vertical filtering for horizontal edges. This specific order enables either multiple horizontal filtering or vertical filtering processes to be applied in parallel threads, or can still be implemented on a CTB-by-CTB basis with only a small processing latency. Compared to HEVC deblocking, the following modifications are introduced.
• HEVC uses an 8x8 deblocking grid for both luma and chroma.
• deblocking on a 4x4 grid for luma boundaries was introduced to handle blocking artifacts from rectangular transform shapes.
• Parallel friendly luma deblocking on a 4x4 grid is achieved by restricting the number of samples to be deblocked to 1 sample on each side of a vertical luma boundary where one side has a width of 4 or less or to 1 sample on each side of a horizontal luma boundary where one side has a height of 4 or less.
• the deblocking filtering process may be applied on a 4x4 grid for CU boundaries and transform subblock boundaries and on an 8x8 grid for prediction subblock boundaries.
• the prediction subblock boundaries include the prediction unit boundaries introduced by
• SbTMVP and affine modes include the transform unit boundaries introduced by SBT and ISP modes, and transforms due to implicit split of large CUs.
• the deblocking filter is applied on TU boundary when there are non-zero coefficients in either transform subblock across the edge.
• the deblocking filter is applied on 8x8 grid with the consideration of the difference between motion vectors and reference pictures of the neighboring prediction subblock.
• Transform block boundaries can at most be deblocked with 5 samples on a side of transform boundary which also is part of a coding block where SbTMVP or affine is used to enable parallel friendly deblocking.
• Internal prediction subblock boundaries 4 samples from a transform block boundary are at most deblocked by 1 sample on each side
• internal prediction subblock boundaries 8 samples away from a transform block boundary are at most deblocked by 2 samples on each side of the boundary and other internal prediction subblock boundaries are at most deblocked with 3 samples on each side of the boundary.
• IBC Intra Block Copy
• IBC is a coding tool similar to inter-picture prediction [1], more details may be described in J. Xu, R. Joshi, and R. A. Cohen,“Overview of the Emerging HEVC Screen Content Coding Extension”, IEEE Transactions On Circuits And Systems For Video Technology, vol. 26, no. 1, January 2016.
• IBC tool When IBC tool is applied on a decoder side, a predictor block in a current picture is reconstructed based on the reconstructed samples (before the application of in-loop filtering) of the current picture.
• IBC is performed at the PU level and it is treated as an inter PU.
• a current picture can also be used as a reference picture for IBC tool.
• a PITs reference picture is the current picture
• the process of constructing of prediction unit is performed from the reconstructed samples, before in-loop filtering in the encoder, of the current picture.
• the current picture is marked as a long-term reference picture.
• the reconstructed picture obtained after in-loop filtering is added to the decoded picture buffer (DPB) as a short-term reference picture.
• DPB decoded picture buffer
• an inter CU may have two PUs, a conventional inter mode is used to one PU and IBC tool is used to other PU; a PU can be bi-directionally predicted according to an average between a block from the current picture and a block from a previous picture.
• unification between IBC and inter mode does not mean that IBC can be directly implemented as an inter mode in practice.
• the implementation of IBC can be much different from that of inter mode in many platforms, as when the current picture is used as a reference, the current picture may has not been fully reconstructed, whereas the other reference pictures have been fully decoded and stored in the DPB.
• FIG. 6 shows an example of the scheme of IBC.
• Current CU (600) takes the reference block (601) only from the area with reconstructed samples (602).
• Block vector (603) refers to the current picture and it is used to get coordinates of the reference block (601).
• a size of the reference block (601) is the same as a size of the current CU (600).
• the predictor block should not intersect with non-reconstructed area (604).
• deblocking filtering is not performed. It may cause blocking artifacts inside IBC prediction blocks, which will not be filtered especially in blocks large than 16-by-16, because the largest deblocking filter with 8-tap filter length cannot change pixels so deep inside the block.
• sub-block deblocking in the case of IBC predicted block as it is done for affine and ATMVP sub-blocks edges.
• sub block deblocking is performed on a grid 8x8, i.e. for blocks 4x4 and 4x8/8x4 it is performed a regular deblocking mechanism.
• sub-block deblocking filtering is applied on sub-block edges, which divides parts of the current block. It may be implemented as following:
• the number of coding sub-blocks in horizontal direction numSbX and in vertical direction numSbY are derived as follows:
• inter_affme_flag[ xCb ][ yCb ] is equal to 1 or merge_sub-block_flag[ xCb ][ yCb ] is equal to 1
• numSbX and numSbY are set equal to NumSbX[ xCb ][ yCb ] and NumSbY[ xCb ][ yCb ], respectively.
• CuPredMode[ 0 ][ xCb ][ yCb ] is equal to MODE IBC
• numSbX and numSbY are set equal to (nCbW » 2) and (nCbH » 2), respectively.
• numSbX and numSbY are both set equal to 1.
• a boundary strength of deblocking for the edges of a sub-block that lies inside the current block should be calculated based on the parameters of the reference block.
• a boundary strength of the edges lying on outer borders of the current block should be calculated based on the parameters of the current block. For example, a boundary strength may be calculated for each 4-by-4 sub-blocks.
• vertical filtering for calculations of boundary strength for sub-blocks on the left column (701) parameters from corresponding points of the current block should be used.
• the other sub-blocks (702) parameters derived from the corresponding points of the reference block should be used.
• horizontal filtering for calculations of boundary strength for sub-blocks on the top row (703) parameters from corresponding points of the current block should be used.
• a process of sample derivation for calculation of boundary strength may be implemented as following:
• edgeType is equal to EDGE VER and i is greater than 0, or edgeType is equal to EDGE HOR and j is greater than 0:
• edgeType is equal to EDGE VER
• po is set equal to recPicture[ xCb + xDi - 1 + MvL0[xCb + xDi - 1][ yCb + yD j ][0]»4 ][ yCb + yD j + MvL0[xCb + xDi - l][yCb + yD j ][l]»4 ] and qo is set equal to recPicture[ xCb + xDi + MvL0[xCb + xDi ][ yCb + yD j ][0]»4 ][ yCb + yD j + MvL0[xCb + xDi - l][yCb + yD j ][l]»4 ].
• edgeType is equal to EDGE VER
• po is set equal to recPicture[ xCb + xDi - 1 ][ yCb + yD j ]
• qo is set equal to recPicture[ xCb + xDi ][ yCb + yD j ].
• edgeType is equal to EDGE HOR
• po is set equal to recPicture[ xCb + xDi ][ yCb + yD j - 1 ]
• qo is set equal to recPicture[ xCb + xDi ][ yCb + yD j ].
• the boundary strength of deblocking for the edges of a sub-block that lies inside the current block should be retrieved from corresponding points of the reference block.
• Embodiment 3 removes internal boundaries inside IBC prediction block, but unfiltered boundaries could arise inside prediction block if reference block cover area with IBC blocks. In this case, they would not be filtered, because for the current block it would be a solid block predicted by IBC. To remove this issue, the boundary strength is not calculated for internal boundaries of sub-block edges, but instead it is copied from corresponding positions of reference blocks.
• This method may requires additional memory to store boundary strength values for every direction of the possible directions, i.e. horizontal and vertical direction, and for every sub-block 4x4 that may be addressed by IBC. As an example, if a total area of accessible pixels to be referenced for IBC prediction is 1 CTU, it needs to store boundary strength flags for every color component of every 4-by-4 sub-block of 1 CTU.
• edgeType is equal to EDGE VER and i is greater than 0, or edgeType is equal to EDGE HOR and j is greater than 0, then variable bS[ xDi ][ yD j ] is set equal to Bs[ edgeType ][ xCb + xDi ][ yCb + yD j ].
• FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the method of FIG. 11 is method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the method performed by coding device.
• the method of FIG. 11 comprises the following steps:
• each sub-block is at least 4x4.
• FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to a further embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the method of FIG. 12 is a method of performing deblocking filtering for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, the method performed by a coding device.
• the method comprises the following steps: (1651) obtaining a predicted block for the current block based on a reference block by using intra block copy prediction mode;
• FIG. 13 illustrates a decoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the decoder of FIG. 13 is a decoder 30 for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode.
• the decoder 30 comprises
• a determining unit 3001 configured to determine a position of a reference block to obtain the reference block
• a constructing unit 3003 configured to construct a prediction for the current block from the reference block
• a deblocking unit 3005 configured to perform a deblocking filter for the prediction to obtain a filtered block, the deblocking unit comprising:
• a first calculating unit 3007 configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in vertical direction, respectively
• a first performing unit 3009 configured to perform deblocking filtering in vertical direction based on the boundary strength in vertical direction
• a second calculating unit 3011 configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in horizontal direction, respectively,
• a second performing unit 3013 configured to perform deblocking filtering based on the boundary strength in horizontal direction
• each sub-block is at least 4x4.
• FIG. 14 illustrates an encoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the encoder of FIG. 14 is an encoder 20 for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode.
• the encoder 20 comprises
• a determining unit 2001 configured to determine a position of a reference block to obtain the reference block
• a constructing unit 2003 configured to construct a prediction for the current block from the reference block
• a deblocking unit 2005 configured to perform a deblocking filter for the prediction to obtain a filtered block, the deblocking unit comprising:
• a first calculating unit 2007 configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in vertical direction, respectively
• a first performing unit 2009 configured to perform deblocking filtering in vertical direction based on the boundary strength in vertical direction
• a second calculating unit 2011 configured to calculate the boundary strength for each sub-block of the current block in horizontal direction, respectively,
• a second performing unit 2013 configured to perform deblocking filtering based on the boundary strength in horizontal direction
• each sub-block is at least 4x4.
• FIG. 15 illustrates a decoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the decoder of FIG. 15 is a decoder 30 for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode.
• the decoder 30 comprises:
• an obtaining unit 3051 configured to obtain a predicted block for the current block based on a reference block by using intra block copy prediction mode
• a deblocking filtering unit 3053 configured to perform deblocking filtering for at least two sub-blocks of the predicted block to remove or avoid visible edge artifacts for the image respectively.
• FIG. 16 illustrates an encoder for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode, according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.
• the encoder 20 of FIG. 16 is an encoder 20 for performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode.
• the encoder 20 comprises: an obtaining unit 2051 configured to obtain a predicted block for the current block based on a reference block by using intra block copy prediction mode;
• a deblocking filtering unit 2053 configured to perform deblocking filtering for at least two sub-blocks of the predicted block to remove or avoid visible edge artifacts for the image respectively.
• FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a content supply system 3100 for realizing content distribution service.
• This content supply system 3100 includes capture device 3102, terminal device 3106, and optionally includes display 3126.
• the capture device 3102 communicates with the terminal device 3106 over communication link 3104.
• the communication link may include the communication channel 13 described above.
• the communication link 3104 includes but not limited to WIFI, Ethernet, Cable, wireless (3G/4G/5G), USB, or any kind of combination thereof, or the like.
• the capture device 3102 generates data, and may encode the data by the encoding method as shown in the above embodiments. Alternatively, the capture device 3102 may distribute the data to a streaming server (not shown in the Figures), and the server encodes the data and transmits the encoded data to the terminal device 3106.
• the capture device 3102 includes but not limited to camera, smart phone or Pad, computer or laptop, video conference system, PDA, vehicle mounted device, or a combination of any of them, or the like.
• the capture device 3102 may include the source device 12 as described above.
• the video encoder 20 included in the capture device 3102 may actually perform video encoding processing.
• an audio encoder included in the capture device 3102 may actually perform audio encoding processing.
• the capture device 3102 distributes the encoded video and audio data by multiplexing them together.
• the encoded audio data and the encoded video data are not multiplexed.
• Capture device 3102 distributes the encoded audio data and the encoded video data to the terminal device 3106 separately.
• the terminal device 310 receives and reproduces the encoded data.
• the terminal device 3106 could be a device with data receiving and recovering capability, such as smart phone or Pad 3108, computer or laptop 3110, network video recorder (NVR)/ digital video recorder (DVR) 3112, TV 31 14, set top box (STB) 3116, video conference system 3118, video surveillance system 3120, personal digital assistant (PDA) 3122, vehicle mounted device 3124, or a combination of any of them, or the like capable of decoding the above-mentioned encoded data.
• the terminal device 3106 may include the destination device 14 as described above.
• the video decoder 30 included in the terminal device is prioritized to perform video decoding.
• an audio decoder included in the terminal device is prioritized to perform audio decoding processing.
• a terminal device with its display for example, smart phone or Pad 3108, computer or laptop 3110, network video recorder (NVR)/ digital video recorder (DVR) 3112, TV 3114, personal digital assistant (PDA) 3122, or vehicle mounted device 3124
• the terminal device can feed the decoded data to its display.
• a terminal device equipped with no display for example, STB 3116, video conference system 31 18, or video surveillance system 3120, an external display 3126 is contacted therein to receive and show the decoded data.
• FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a structure of an example of the terminal device 3106.
• the protocol proceeding unit 3202 analyzes the transmission protocol of the stream.
• the protocol includes but not limited to Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTTP Live streaming protocol (HLS), MPEG-DASH, Real-time Transport protocol (RTP), Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), or any kind of combination thereof, or the like.
• stream file is generated.
• the file is outputted to a demultiplexing unit 3204.
• the demultiplexing unit 3204 can separate the multiplexed data into the encoded audio data and the encoded video data. As described above, for some practical scenarios, for example in the video conference system, the encoded audio data and the encoded video data are not multiplexed. In this situation, the encoded data is transmitted to video decoder 3206 and audio decoder 3208 without through the demultiplexing unit 3204.
• video elementary stream (ES), audio ES, and optionally subtitle are generated.
• the video decoder 3206 which includes the video decoder 30 as explained in the above-mentioned embodiments, decodes the video ES by the decoding method as shown in the above-mentioned embodiments to generate video frame, and feeds this data to the synchronous unit 3212.
• the audio decoder 3208 decodes the audio ES to generate audio frame, and feeds this data to the synchronous unit 3212.
• the video frame may store in a buffer (not shown in FIG. 10) before feeding it to the synchronous unit 3212.
• the audio frame may store in a buffer (not shown in FIG. 10) before feeding it to the synchronous unit 3212.
• the synchronous unit 3212 synchronizes the video frame and the audio frame, and supplies the video/audio to a video/audio display 3214.
• the synchronous unit 3212 synchronizes the presentation of the video and audio information.
• Information may code in the syntax using time stamps concerning the presentation of coded audio and visual data and time stamps concerning the delivery of the data stream itself.
• the subtitle decoder 3210 decodes the subtitle, and synchronizes it with the video frame and the audio frame, and supplies the video/audio/subtitle to a video/audio/subtitle display 3216.
• the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned system, and either the picture encoding device or the picture-decoding device in the above-mentioned embodiments can be incorporated into other system, for example, a car system.
• the first is equivalent to the 0-th
• the second is equivalent to the 1-th
• na When a relational operator is applied to a syntax element or variable that has been assigned the value "na” (not applicable), the value "na” is treated as a distinct value for the syntax element or variable. The value “na” is considered not to be equal to any other value.
• x y..z x takes on integer values starting from y to z, inclusive, with x, y, and z being integer numbers and z being greater than y.
• Ceil( x ) the smallest integer greater than or equal to x.
• Clip 1 Y ( X ) Clip3 ( 0, ( 1 « BitDepthy ) - 1 , x )
• Clipl c ( x ) Clip3( 0, ( 1 « BitDepthc ) - 1, x )
• Cos( x ) the trigonometric cosine function operating on an argument x in units of radians.
• Round/ x Sign/ x ) * Floor/ Abs( x ) + 0.5 )
• Tan/ x the trigonometric tangent function operating on an argument x in units of radians Order of operation precedence
• the table below specifies the precedence of operations from highest to lowest; a higher position in the table indicates a higher precedence.
• condition 0a && condition 0b if( condition 0a && condition 0b )
• statement 1 If one or more of the following conditions are true, statement 1 :
• embodiments of the invention have been primarily described based on video coding, it should be noted that embodiments of the coding system 10, encoder 20 and decoder 30 (and correspondingly the system 10) and the other embodiments described herein may also be configured for still picture processing or coding, i.e. the processing or coding of an individual picture independent of any preceding or consecutive picture as in video coding.
• inter-prediction units 244 (encoder) and 344 (decoder) may not be available in case the picture processing coding is limited to a single picture 17. All other functionalities (also referred to as tools or technologies) of the video encoder 20 and video decoder 30 may equally be used for still picture processing, e.g.
• residual calculation 204/304 transform 206, quantization 208, inverse quantization 210/310, (inverse) transform 212/312, partitioning 262/362, intra-prediction 254/354, and/or loop filtering 220, 320, and entropy coding 270 and entropy decoding 304.
• Embodiments, e.g. of the encoder 20 and the decoder 30, and functions described herein, e.g. with reference to the encoder 20 and the decoder 30, may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on a computer-readable medium or transmitted over communication media as one or more instructions or code and executed by a hardware-based processing unit.
• Computer-readable media may include computer-readable storage media, which corresponds to a tangible medium such as data storage media, or communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another, e.g., according to a communication protocol.
• computer-readable media generally may correspond to (1) tangible computer-readable storage media, which is non-transitory, or (2) a communication medium such as a signal or carrier wave.
• Data storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by one or more computers or one or more processors to retrieve instructions, code and/or data structures for implementation of the techniques described in this disclosure.
• a computer program product may include a computer-readable medium.
• Such computer-readable storage media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage, or other magnetic storage devices, flash memory, or any other medium that can be used to store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer.
• any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium.
• coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave are included in the definition of medium.
• DSL digital subscriber line
• computer- readable storage media and data storage media do not include connections, carrier waves, signals, or other transitory media, but are instead directed to non-transitory, tangible storage media.
• Disk and disc includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and Blu-ray disc, where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
• processors such as one or more digital signal processors (DSPs), general purpose microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable logic arrays (FPGAs), or other equivalent integrated or discrete logic circuitry.
• DSPs digital signal processors
• ASICs application specific integrated circuits
• FPGAs field programmable logic arrays
• the term“processor,” as used herein may refer to any of the foregoing structure or any other structure suitable for implementation of the techniques described herein.
• the functionality described herein may be provided within dedicated hardware and/or software modules configured for encoding and decoding, or incorporated in a combined codec. Also, the techniques could be fully implemented in one or more circuits or logic elements.
• the techniques of this disclosure may be implemented in a wide variety of devices or apparatuses, including a wireless handset, an integrated circuit (IC) or a set of ICs (e.g., a chip set).
• IC integrated circuit
• a set of ICs e.g., a chip set.
• Various components, modules, or units are described in this disclosure to emphasize functional aspects of devices configured to perform the disclosed techniques, but do not necessarily require realization by different hardware units. Rather, as described above, various units may be combined in a codec hardware unit or provided by a collection of interop erative hardware units, including one or more processors as described above, in conjunction with suitable software and/or firmware.
• An aspect of a method of performing a deblocking filter for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode a. determining position of reference block
• An aspect of a method of aspect 7 wherein calculation of boundary strength for filtering in vertical direction for columns except left with size 4-by-N is performed as deriving value of boundary strength of filtering in vertical direction from corresponding positions of the reference block. 10. An aspect of a method of aspect 1, wherein calculation of boundary strength for each 4- by-4 sub-block of the current block in horizontal and vertical directions is performed based on parameters derived from the corresponding positions of the reference block.
• An aspect of a method of performing deblocking filtering for blocks predicted by using intra block copy prediction mode the method comprises:
• An aspect of a method of aspect 11, wherein the performing deblocking filtering for at least two sub-blocks of the predicted block respectively comprises:

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