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Huawei Technoloiges Co., Ltd.

Elena Alexandrovna Alshina

Semih Esenlik

Anand Meher Kotra

Biao Wang

Roman Igorevich Chernyak

Sergey Yurievich Ikonin

Han Gao

Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov

Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev

Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov

Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy

Huanbang Chen

Jianle Chen

Haitao Yang

Maxim Borisovitch Sychev

Max Blaeser

Zhijie Zhao

Victor Alexeevich Stepin

Marat Ravilevich Gilmutdinov

Anton Igorevich Veselov

Eckehard Steinbach

Atanas Boev

Weiwei Xu

Quanhe Yu

Hu Chen

Dmitry Yurievich Kuryshev

Dmitry Vadimovich Novikov

Kirill Aleksandrovich Malakhov

Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Sosulnikov

Panqi Jia

Kamilla Railevna Davletshina

Nikita Vyacheslavovich Ustiuzhanin

Kai Cui

Fabian Brand

André Kaup

Jürgen Seiler

Nickolay Dmitrievich Egorov

Rafal Mantiuk

A method of coding is implemented by a decoding device, the method includes: receiving a bitstream, and obtaining from the bitstream, a first luma bit depth value of luma samples of a current picture. The method also includes performing a Hadamard Transform Domain Filtering (HTDF) post reconstruction filtering of a block of the current picture by using a lookup table based on the obtained first luma bit depth value.

Method and apparatus for hadamard transform domain filtering of the video signal with various bit depth

A method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising obtaining a value of a parameter for a current block, the value of the parameter indicating a partition mode for the current block; obtaining a first prediction mode for the current block; obtaining a second prediction mode for the current block; generate a first prediction value for a chroma sample in the current block according to the first prediction mode; generate a second prediction value for a chroma sample in the current block according to the second prediction mode; obtaining a combined prediction value by combining the first prediction value and the second prediction value.

Chroma sample weight derivation for geometric partition mode

The present disclosure provides a method of coding implemented by a decoding device, the method comprising: obtaining a value of a splitting mode index for a current coding block; obtaining a value of an angle index for the current coding block according to the value of the splitting mode index value and a pre-stored table; setting a value of an index partIdx according to the value of the angle index; and storing motion information for the current coding block according to the value of the index partIdx.

Coding process for geometric partition mode

An inter prediction method includes determining whether a non-rectangular inter prediction mode is allowed for a group of blocks; obtaining one or more inter prediction mode parameters and weighted prediction parameters for the group of blocks; and obtaining prediction value of a current block based on the one or more inter prediction mode parameters and weighted prediction parameters, wherein one of the inter prediction mode parameters indicates reference picture information for the current block, and wherein the group of blocks comprises the current block.

Method and apparatus of harmonizing weighted prediction with non-rectangular merge modes

Signalling of syntax elements in a sequence parameter set of a video bitstream is addressed. Particularly, it is provided a method of decoding a video bitstream wherein a sequence parameter set, SPS, is coded that contains syntax elements that apply to a video sequence, the method comprising obtaining a value of a first syntax element from the SPS used to specify whether a decoded picture buffer, DPB, parameters syntax structure is present in the SPS and obtaining a value of a second syntax element from the SPS, at least when determining that the value of the first syntax element specifies that the DPB parameters syntax structure is present in the SPS, used to specify the presence of a DPB syntax element in the DPB parameters syntax structure, wherein the DPB syntax element is applied to a temporal sublayer except for the highest temporal sublayer in the video sequence.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods of signaling and semantics in parameter sets

A method for an intra predicting process of a video block is provided. The method comprises: obtaining a predicted sample value for a sample of the current coding block; obtaining a scaling factor value according to an intra prediction mode for the current coding block, and according to a height of the current coding block and/or a width of the current coding block; determining a first weight based on the scaling factor value; determining a second weight based on the scaling factor value; calculating an additional value as a weighted sum of a top reference sample value and a left reference sample value, by weighting the top reference sample value with the first weight and weighting the left reference sample value with the second weight; obtaining a modified predicted sample value according to the additional value and the predicted sample value; and outputting the modified predicted sample.

Prediction combination for oblique directional intra prediction

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for providing a plurality of motion vectors related to an image coded in a bitstream. The method includes obtaining a set of sample positions within the image, obtaining respective motion vectors associated with the set of sample positions, deriving an additional motion vector based on information coded in the bitstream, determining an additional sample position located within a triangle, which is formed by three sample positions of the set of sample positions, based on the respective motion vectors associated with the three sample positions, the triangle not including the rest of the sample positions of the set of sample positions, adding the additional sample position to the set of sample positions, and associating the derived additional motion vector with the additional sample position.

Triangulation-based adaptive subsampling of dense motion vector fields

A method includes: obtaining one or more parameters of a geometric merge (GEO) inter prediction mode for a current coding block; defining a size of a subblock that is smaller than a size of the current coding block; specifying a position of the subblock within the current coding block, so that either two or three sides of the subblock coincide with sides of the current coding block; determining one or more allowed split directions of a triangle partitioning mode (TPM) for the subblock depending on which of the sides of the subblock coincide with the sides of the current coding block; and obtaining one or more predicted samples for the current coding block by using the TPM partitioning performed for the subblock in accordance with the size of the subblock, the position of the subblock within the current coding block and a TPM split direction of the subblock.

Method and apparatus of simplified geometric merge mode for inter prediction

The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular, a method for inter prediction for a block in a frame of a video signal includes: constructing a history-based motion information candidate list, wherein the list is an ordered list comprising N history-based motion information candidates Hcontaining motion information of N preceding blocks preceding the block, wherein each history-based motion information candidate comprises: one or more motion vectors (MVs), one or more reference picture indices corresponding to the MVs, and an interpolation filter index; adding one or more history-based motion information candidates from the history-based motion information candidate list into a motion information candidate list for the block; and deriving motion information for the block based on the motion information candidate list.

Method and apparatus for deriving an interpolation filter index for a current block

A method of coding implemented by a decoding device or encoding device, the method comprising obtaining a value of an angle parameter for a current block; obtaining a value of a width of the current block and a value of a height of the current block; calculating a ratio value between the value of the width and the value of height; obtaining a first value according to the value of angle parameter and the ratio value; calculating a sample distance value for a sample in the current block according to the first value; obtaining a prediction value for the sample in the current block according to the sample distance value.

Sample distance calculation for geometric partition mode

A method of coding performed by a decoding device and a decoder are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a bitstream for a current picture; obtaining a quantity of tiles in a tile row of the current picture; obtaining a value of an address of a current slice comprised in the current picture; obtaining a value of a horizontal coordinate according to the value of the address of the current slice; and when a difference value between the quantity of tiles in the tile row of the current picture and the value of the horizontal coordinate is not equal to a first threshold, parsing an indication value for a slice width from the bitstream for the current picture.

Decoder and corresponding methods to signal picture partitioning information for slices

Intra- or inter-prediction can be used for video encoding and decoding. For that purpose, an apparatus and methods obtain a filter (a set of coefficients) from a set of filters based on the subsample position (p) defined for the set of positions of predicted samples, where the set of filters is obtained by combining at least two pre-defined input filter sets.

Method and apparatus of subsample interpolation filtering

A method of obtaining a chrominance quantization parameter (QP) for chrominance components based on a luminance QP for a luminance component, wherein the method is performed by a decoder, and comprises parsing a received bitstream comprising a sequence parameter set (SPS) to obtain the luminance QP and information of a mapping function (ƒ) which associates a QP index (QPi) to a chrominance QP (QPc), wherein the chroma QP mapping table is signaled in the SPS; obtaining the QPi based at least in part on the luminance QP; obtaining the mapping function based on the obtained information of the mapping function; and obtaining a QPc based on the obtained mapping function and the obtained QPi.

Method and apparatus for signaling of mapping function of chroma quantization parameter

The disclosure relates to methods and a coding apparatus for intra prediction using a linear model. The method includes: determining a filter for a luma component of a current block based on a chroma format of a picture that the current block belongs to, and applying the determined filter to an area of reconstructed luma samples of the luma component of the current block and/or luma samples in selected position neighboring to the current block, to obtain filtered reconstructed luma samples. The method further includes: obtaining, based on the filtered reconstructed luma samples, linear model coefficients. Cross-component prediction is performed based on linear model coefficients of the linear model derivation and the filtered reconstructed luma sample.

Method and apparatus of filtering for cross-component linear model prediction

The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular to handling of chroma subsampled formats in machine-learning-based video coding. Corresponding apparatuses and methods enable the processing for encoding and decoding of a respective picture portion that includes a luma component and a chroma component with a resolution lower than the luma component. In order to handle such different sized luma-chroma channels, the chroma component is up-sampled such that the obtained up-sampled chroma component has a resolution matching the one of the luma component. The luma and the up-sampled chroma component are then encoded into a bitstream. To reconstruct the picture portion, the luma component and an intermediate chroma component matching the resolution of the luma component are decoded from the bitstream, followed by down-sampling the intermediate chroma component. Thus, sub-sampled chroma formats may be handled by an autoencoder/autodecoder framework, while preserving the luma channel.

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Elena Alexandrovna Alshina