Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Minzu University of China

Bing Yu

Hong-Jheng Jhu

Xianglin Wang

Yi-Wen Chen

Xiaoyu Xiu

Tsung-Chuan Ma

Che-Wei Kuo

Wei Chen

Ning Yan

Chang Kyu Choi

Shuiming Ye

Biao Wang

Guoxin Jin

Shufei Fan

Jaejoon Han

Chao Zhang

Han Gao

Nan Wang

Jingtao Xu

Chao Zhou

Jae-Joon Han

Wonjun Hwang

Hao Feng

Deheng Qian

Liang Guo

Yaozu An

Yucong Chen

Xin Tao

Mading Li

Fulin Li

Yun-fei Zheng

Yuyan Song

Genxiang Chen

Yunshu Gao

Shengjuan Peng

Qian Cui

Mingda Wu

Fanbo Deng

Yurong Dai

Yunfei Zheng

Jiajie Zhang

Xiaodong Ning

An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data, comprising: receiving, from the video signal, a picture frame that includes a first component and a second component in a first color space; determining a classifier for the second component in the first color space from a set of one or more samples of the first component associated with a respective sample of the second component in the first color space, wherein the set of one or more samples are in a second color space; determining a sample offset for the respective sample of the second component in the first color space according to the classifier; and modifying the value of the respective sample of the second component in the first color space based on the determined sample offset.

Coding enhancement in cross-component sample adaptive offset

Methods and devices are provided for rectifying a forward mapping coding bit length issue introduced by LMCS. In one method, a plurality of prediction samples, in a mapped domain, of luma component of a CU that is coded by a CIIP mode under LMCS framework is obtained, a plurality of residual samples, in the mapped domain, of the luma component of the CU is obtained, the plurality of prediction samples in the mapped domain is added to the plurality of residual samples in the mapped domain, resulting in a plurality of reconstructed samples, in the mapped domain, of the luma component, and the plurality of reconstructed samples of the luma component is converted from the mapped domain into an original domain based on a pre-defined plurality of inverse mapping scaling factors.

Methods and devices for prediction dependent residual scaling for video coding

An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data that includes: if the adaptive color transform (ACT) is enabled for the residuals of a coding unit, receiving, from information in a bitstream, the adjustment values applied to the quantization parameters for de-quantization, and the coefficients for the residuals of the coding unit; reconstructing the residuals of the coding unit by applying the de-quantization and inverse transform to the received coefficients for the residuals of the coding unit; and if the residuals of the coding unit have been coded using the ACT, modifying the reconstructed residuals of the coding unit by applying an inverse ACT to convert the reconstructed residuals of the coding unit from the YCgCo color space to the original color space based on one same inverse ACT matrix that is applied to the one coding unit being coded either in a lossy or lossless coding mode.

Methods and apparatus of video coding

An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data, including receiving, from bitstream, a first syntax element in a slice header of a slice that indicates whether luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) is applied to a coding unit in the slice; receiving a second syntax element for the coding unit that indicates whether the coding unit has been coded using adaptive color-space transform (ACT); if the second syntax element has a non-zero value, decoding the coding unit by applying inverse ACT to convert luma and chroma residuals of the coding unit from a transformed color space to an original color space of the video data; and if the first syntax element has a non-zero value, decoding the coding unit by performing inverse luma mapping to the luma samples and inverse scaling to the chroma residuals of the coding unit after performing the inverse ACT.

Methods and apparatus of video coding in 4:4:4 chroma format

An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method includes: receiving, from the video signal, a picture frame that includes a first component and a second component; reconstructing samples of the first component through a first in-loop filter; reconstructing samples of the second component through a second in-loop filter; determining a classifier for the first component from one or more reconstructed samples of the second component relative to a respective reconstructed sample of the first component; selecting a first sample offset for the respective reconstructed sample of the first component according to the classifier; applying a plurality of filters in parallel with the selection of the first sample offset to obtain a plurality of parallel offsets; and clipping an output of a combination of the respective reconstructed sample of the first component, the first sample offset, and the plurality of parallel offsets from the plurality of filters.

An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from bitstream, one or more syntax elements and video data corresponding to a coding unit; determining a Rice parameter according to the one or more syntax elements; decoding, from the video data, a first codeword and a second codeword for a pixel within the coding unit; converting the first codeword into a parameter of the pixel in accordance with a predefined mapping relationship that is generated using the determined Rice parameter; converting the second codeword into a sign value of the parameter; and determining a quantified pixel value of the pixel based on the parameter and the sign value.

Methods and apparatus of residual and coefficient coding

Methods and apparatuses are provided for video coding. The method includes: partitioning a picture into a plurality of coding units; partitioning a coding unit of the plurality of coding units into two geometric partitions; and performing a predetermined number of motion vector comparison operations during a process of constructing a merging candidate list for either of the two geometric partitions.

Methods and apparatuses for video coding using geometric partition

A method for video decoding is provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of sub-blocks within an affine coding unit (CU) of a video frame, where the plurality of sub-blocks include a plurality of boundary sub-blocks and a plurality of non-boundary sub-blocks. Further, the method may include applying both overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) and affine secondary prediction (ASP) to at least one sub-block to generate a sub-block-based prediction for the affine CU or enabling the ASP for the plurality of non-boundary sub-block and disabling the OBMC for the plurality of non-boundary sub-blocks.

Overlapped block motion compensation for inter prediction

Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video block in geometry partition mode (GPM). The method includes: partitioning the video block into first and second geometric partitions; obtaining a first prediction list for the first geometric partition and obtaining a second prediction list for the second geometric partition; obtaining motion vectors (MVs) for the first and second geometric partitions by applying a GPM with explicit motion signaling (EMS) to the first and second geometric partitions based on the first and second prediction lists; and obtaining prediction samples of the first and second geometric partitions based on the MVs.

Geometric partition mode with explicit motion signaling

A method for video encoding includes determining whether any coding group of a transform block located within a zero-out region has a non-zero coefficient. The transform block comprises a non-zero region and the zero-out region. Further, in accordance with a determination that no coding group of the transform block located within the zero-out region has a non-zero coefficient, the method includes applying respective inverse transforms to transform coefficients of the transform block in both horizontal and vertical directions.

Methods and apparatus on transform and coefficient signaling

A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for decoding a video signal are provided. A decoder may receive, through a bitstream, arranged syntax elements in sequence parameter set (SPS) level. The arranged syntax elements in the SPS level are arranged so that functions of related syntax elements are grouped in versatile video coding (VVC) syntax at a coding level. The decoder may receive, through the bitstream and in response to multiple syntax elements satisfy a predefined condition, a second syntax element immediately after the multiple syntax elements. The decoder may perform, through the bitstream, a related syntax element function to video data from the bitstream in accordance with the multiple syntax elements and the second syntax element.

High-level syntax for video coding

An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from a bitstream, multiple syntax elements at one or more of sequence parameter set (SPS) level, picture parameter set (PPS) level, and slice level, wherein the multiple syntax elements are associated with a predefined function and sequentially arranged in the bitstream; in accordance with a determination that at least one of the multiple syntax elements satisfies a predefined condition: receiving, from the bitstream, a second syntax element after the multiple syntax elements; in accordance with a determination that the at least one of the multiple syntax elements does not satisfy the predefined condition: setting a value of the second syntax element to a default value; and performing the predefined function for video data from the bitstream in accordance with at least one of the multiple syntax elements and the second syntax element, wherein the predefined function is one selected from the group consisting of intra prediction function, inter prediction function, and merge mode.

Methods and apparatus for high-level syntax in video coding

Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are provided for video coding. In one method, a decoder derives a first and a second reference pictures for a current coding block; the decoder derives a first and a second predictor samples based on a motion vector associated with the first reference picture using a motion compensation process from the first reference picture; the decoder determines whether the first and the second predictor samples are out-of-boundary (OOB), and in response to determining the first or the second predictor sample is OOB, the decoder replaces the first or the second predictor sample that is OOB with a first or a second alternative predictor sample; and the decoder generates the final prediction sample by averaging sample values of the first predictor sample and the second predictor sample.

Motion compensation considering out-of-boundary conditions in video coding

Implementations of the disclosure provide a video decoding apparatus and method for transform coefficient sign prediction on a video decoder side. The method may include selecting a set of candidate transform coefficients from dequantized transform coefficients. The method may include applying a template-based hypothesis generation scheme to select a hypothesis from a plurality of candidate hypotheses for the set of candidate transform coefficients. The method may include determining a combination of sign candidates associated with the selected hypothesis to be a set of predicted signs for the set of candidate transform coefficients. The method may include estimating original signs for the set of candidate transform coefficients based on the set of predicted signs and a sequence of sign signaling bits received from a video encoder. The method may include updating the dequantized transform coefficients based on the estimated original signs for the set of candidate transform coefficients.

Sign prediction for block-based video coding

Implementations of the disclosure provide video processing apparatuses and methods for inter-prediction. A video processing method for the inter-prediction performed by a video decoder includes determining a reference index for a video block in a video frame of a video from a bitstream. The video processing method also includes generating a joint list including a plurality pairs of reference pictures based on a first reference list and a second reference list for the video block. The video processing method further includes reordering the plurality pairs of reference pictures in the joint list based on bilateral matching using one or more motion vectors of the video block to generate a reordered joint list. The video processing method further includes performing the inter-prediction on the video block based on the reordered joint list and the reference index.

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