【抄録】Different from the traditional quaternary tree (QT) structure utilized in the previous generation video coding standard H.265/HEVC, a brand new partition structure named quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT) is applied in the latest codec H.266/VVC. The introduction of QTMT brings in superior encoding performance at the cost of great time-consuming. Therefore, a fast intra partition algorithm based on variance and Sobel operator is proposed in this paper. The proposed method settles the novel asymmetrical partition issue in VVC by well balancing the reduction of computational complexity and the loss of encoding quality. To be more concrete, we first terminate further splitting of a coding unit (CU) when the texture of it is judged as smooth. Then, we use Sobel operator to extract gradient features to decide whether to split this CU by QT, thus terminating further MT partitions. Finally, a completely novel method to choose only one partition from five QTMT partitions is applied. Obviously, homogeneous area tends to use a larger CU as a whole to do prediction while CUs with complicated texture are prone to be divided into small sub-CUs and these sub-CUs usually have different textures from each other. We calculate the variance of variance of each sub-CU to decide which partition will distinguish the sub-textures best. Our method is embedded into the latest VVC official reference software VTM-7.0. Comparing to anchor VTM-7.0, our method saves the encoding time by 49.27% on average at the cost of only 1.63% BDBR increase. As a traditional scheme based on variance and gradient to decrease the computational complexity in VVC intra coding, our method outperforms other relative existing state-of-the-art methods, including traditional machine learning and convolution neural network methods. © 2013 IEEE.

【抄録】In this paper, a coding framework VIP-ICT-Codec is introduced. Our method is based on the VTM (Versatile Video Coding Test Model). First, we propose a color space conversion from RGB to YUV domain by using a PCA-like operation. A method for the PCA mean calculation is proposed to de-correlate the residual components of YUV channels. Besides, the correlation of UV components is compensated considering that they share the same coding tree in VVC. We also learn a residual mapping to alleviate the over-filtered and under-filtered problem of specific images. Finally, we regard the rate control as an unconstraint Lagrangian problem to reach the target bpp. The results show that we achieve 32.625dB at the validation phase. © 2020 IEEE.

【抄録】With the continuous development of mobile devices, it becomes possible for people to demand higher definition videos. To alleviate the pressure of deploying the video codec in mobile multimedia, a learning-based low complexity in-loop filter is proposed in this paper. Depthwise separable convolution is combined with batch normalization to construct this model. To enhance its performance, the knowledge from a pre-trained teacher model is transferred to it. However, the over-smoothing problem in the inter frames caused by double enhancing effect remains. To solve this, a Wiener-based filtering algorithm that tries to restore the distortion from the learned residuals is designed and introduces an adequate filtering effect. The experimental results show that our proposed methods achieve considerable BD-rate reduction than HEVC anchor. Compared with the previous state-of-the-art work VR-CNN, our model achieves 1.65% extra BD-rate reduction, 79.1% decrease in FLOPs, 25% decrease in encoding complexity, and 70% decoding complexity decrease. © 2020 IEEE.

【抄録】For the next-generation video coding standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC), several new contributions have been proposed to improve the coding efficiency, especially in the transformation operations. This paper proposes a unified 32× 32 block-based transform architecture for the VVC standard that enables 2D Discrete Sine Transform-VII (DST-VII) and Discrete Cosine Transform-VIII (DCT-VIII) of all sizes. It mainly gives three contributions: 1) The N-Dimensional Reduced Adder Graph (RAG-n) algorithm is adopted to design the minimal adder-oriented computational units. 2) The storage of the asymmetric transform units can be realized in the dual-port SRAM-based transpose memory. 3) The pipelined 2D transformations of mixed block sizes are achieved with the throughput rate of 32 samples per cycle. The synthesis results indicate that this architecture can reduce area by up to 73.1% compared with other state-of-the-art works. Moreover, power saving ranging from 4.9% to 9.9% can be achieved. Regarding the transpose memory, at least 21.9% of the area can be saved by using SRAM. © 1991-2012 IEEE.

【抄録】In this paper, a dual learning-based method in intra coding is introduced for PCS Grand Challenge. This method is mainly composed of two parts: intra prediction and reconstruction filtering. They use different network structures, the neural network-based intra prediction uses the full-connected network to predict the block while the neural network-based reconstruction filtering utilizes the convolutional networks. Different with the previous filtering works, we use a network with more powerful feature extraction capabilities in our reconstruction filtering network. And the filtering unit is the block-level so as to achieve a more accurate filtering compensation. To our best knowledge, among all the learning-based methods, this is the first attempt to combine two different networks in one application, and we achieve the state-of-the-art performance for AI configuration on the HEVC Test sequences. The experimental result shows that our method leads to significant BD-rate saving for provided 8 sequences compared to HM-16.20 baseline (average 10.24% and 3.57% bitrate reductions for all-intra and random-access coding, respectively). For HEVC test sequences, our model also achieved a 9.70% BD-rate saving compared to HM-16.20 baseline for allintra configuration. © 2019 IEEE.

【抄録】Quadtree with nested multi-Type tree (QTMT) partition structure in Versatile Video Coding (VVC) contributes to superior encoding performance compared to the basic quad-Tree (QT) structure in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). However, the improvement of performance leads to an un-Avoidable increase of computational complexity. To achieve a balance between coding efficiency and compression quality, we propose a fast intra partition algorithm based on variance and gradient to solve the rectangular partition problem in VVC. First, further splitting of smooth areas is terminated. Then, QT partition is chosen depending on the gradient features extracted by Sobel operator. Finally, one partition from five possible QTMT partitions is directly chosen by computing the variance of variance of sub-CUs. The theoretical basis of our method is that a homogeneous area tends to be predicted with a larger coding unit (CU), and sub-parts of a split CU are prone to have different textures from each other. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply traditional method to accelerating the rectangular partition problem in VVC intra prediction. Experimental results show that the proposed method can save averagely 53.17% encoding time with only 1.62% BDBR increase and 0.09dB BDPSNR loss compared to anchor VTM4.0. © 2019 IEEE.