Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seoul National University

Jae-moon Kim

Ki-won Yoo

Sang-kwon Na

Sung-Oh Kim

Hyung-Ju Chun

Sung-dae Kim

Ki-Huk Lee

Hyun-Hee Park

Soo-Hyung Kim

Kwang-Tai Kim

Dong-Hyun Yeom

Chan-sik Park

Chang-su Han

Yong-Man Lee

Jae-Hyun Kim

Kyo-hyuk Lee

Jong-Bum Choi

Yong-Jin Choi

Seul-Ki Jang

Soo-ik Chae

Seung-Won Oh

Hak-song Park

Man-young Lee

Woo-seok Jeong

Tae-yong Kim

Young-cheol Kim

Various embodiments of the present disclosure propose an apparatus and a method for processing an image for converting a frame rate. To this end, the present invention is capable of providing an apparatus and a method for processing an image, configured to convert a frame rate on the basis of monochrome image frames acquired through a monochrome sensor, and perform an image synthesis with the frame rate converted monochrome image frame by using a downsampled color image frame acquired through a color sensor.

Image processing apparatus and method

Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining a residue of a first bit-depth with respect to a current block by decoding a bitstream; when intra predicting the current block, generating a prediction block of the current block by using a block that is previously decoded at the first bit-depth and then stored in a buffer; and generating a reconstruction block of the first bit-depth by using the prediction block and the residue of the first bit-depth. When the current block is inter predicted, the video decoding method may further include generating a prediction block of a second bit-depth by using an image previously decoded at the second bit-depth, and generating the prediction block of the current block by changing the generated prediction block of the second bit-depth to the first bit-depth. The first bit-depth is higher than the second bit-depth.

Video encoding method and apparatus therefor, and video decoding method and apparatus therefor

Provided is a video decoding method for reconstructing an image, the video decoding method including: obtaining reference image data from a bitstream; determining an attribute of the reference image data as a long-term reference attribute or a short-term reference attribute, according to a frequency of referring to the reference image data by image data to be decoded; storing the reference image data in a memory by using the attribute of the reference image data; and decoding an image by using the reference image data stored in the memory.

Video encoding/decoding method and device for controlling reference image data according to reference frequency

Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a merge mode by using motion information of a previous prediction unit. The method of determining a merge mode includes obtaining a merge mode cost of a lower depth based on a merge mode cost of a coding unit of an upper depth obtained by using motion information of a merge mode of the coding unit of the upper depth corresponding to a merge mode of the coding unit of the lower depth.

Method and apparatus for determining merge mode

A video encoding apparatus comprises an encoder encoding input video; a decoder decoding video data, and a filter to compensate for a pixel value of the encoded video data. An adaptive loop filter (ALF) parameter predictor generates an ALF filter parameter using the decoded video data. The ALF filter parameter is applied to an ALF filter to compensate a current pixel by using a pixel adjacent to the current pixel and a filter coefficient with respect to the neighboring pixel; a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter unit applied to the decoded video data compensates for a current pixel by using at least one of an edge offset and a band offset; an ALF filter unit applies the ALF filter parameter, the ALF filter to video data to which the SAO filter has been applied; and an entropy encoder performs entropy encoding on the ALF filter parameter.

Video encoding method using in-loop filter parameter prediction and apparatus therefor, and video decoding method and apparatus therefor

A method of performing embedded compression (EC) on image data includes receiving decoded image data; determining a block size of image data waiting for embedded compression from among the received image data; and comparing the determined block size of the image data waiting for embedded compression with an EC block size that is an embedded compression unit, the method further including: if the determined block size of the image data waiting for embedded compression is equal to or greater than the EC block size, embedding and compressing the received image data; and if the determined block size of the image data waiting for embedded compression is smaller than the EC block size, storing tag information of the received image data.

Method, apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium for efficiently performing embedded compression of data

A video encoder and decoder are described. The encoder operates on luma data and chroma data. The luma data is split into two channels. The channel split can be based on frequency regions or based on even and odd lines. When the channel split is based on frequency regions, the encoder produces a channel with low frequency data and a channel with high frequency data. A third channel holds chroma data. The decoder recovers the split luma data and the third channel of chroma data. The decoder may then generate one or more pixels to be stored in a line buffer.

Image decoding method and device therefor, and image encoding method and device therefor

Provided is a video encoding method including: performing padding outside an input image such that a size of the input image is a multiple of a maximum coding unit; when a current maximum coding unit includes a padding area generated via the padding, determining a coding unit by splitting the current maximum coding unit by using a boundary of the input image and the padding area; determining information indicating whether a coding unit included in the padding area includes a nonzero coefficient to be 0; and encoding a bitstream including the determined information.

Video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses for padding area of image

A video decoding method includes obtaining a motion vector of a current block belonging to a first picture from a bitstream, performed by a first decoding unit; determining whether a reference block indicated by the motion vector is decoded, performed by the first decoding unit; and decoding the current block, based on whether the reference block is decoded. The reference block is included in a second picture decoded by a second decoding unit. The first picture and the second picture are decoded in parallel.

Method and apparatus for parallel video decoding based on multi-core system

A video encoding method includes: receiving an image; up-sampling the received image; and changing a sample value of an up-sampling region included in the up-sampled image and encoding the up-sampled image by using the changed sample value, wherein the up-sampling region is a region inserted into the received image by the up-sampling.

Video decoding method and apparatus and video encoding method and apparatus

A video compressing apparatus and method that may increase the compression efficiency while maintaining the quality of video on an electronic device processing multimedia data including video are provided. The apparatus includes a video compressing apparatus and method that obtain a target image from a memory or camera, generate meta data corresponding to attribute information of the obtained target image, and compress the target image based on, at least, the generated meta data.

Electronic device and method for operating the same

Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video and a method and apparatus for decoding a video. The method of encoding includes: determining, for a current block, bidirectional motion estimation information comprising an Lmotion vector, an Lmotion vector, an Lreference vector, and an Lreference picture by performing bidirectional motion estimation on the current block; determining whether to use the determined bidirectional motion estimation information as prediction information of the current block based on whether the Lreference picture and the Lreference picture are the same and based on a difference value between the Lmotion vector and the Lmotion vector; and in response to determining to use the determined bidirectional motion estimation information as the prediction information of the current block, encoding the determined bidirectional motion estimation information as the prediction information of the current block.

Method and device for encoding video to limit bidirectional prediction and block merging, and method and device for decoding video

An error correction method and apparatus for correcting multiple errors in received digital data word signals calculates syndromes S.sub.0, S.sub.1, S.sub.2 and S.sub.3 from a block of n received data words and a parity check matrix H. First coefficients .sigma..sub.1 and .sigma..sub.2 are calculated from the derived syndromes and a second coefficient K is calculated from the first coefficients .sigma..sub.1 and .sigma..sub.2. An error location value x.sub.1 is calculated from the second coefficient K, actual error location values X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 are calculated from the value x.sub.1, and error values Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 are calculated from the actual error location values X.sub.1 and X.sub.2. The received data words are then corrected by applying the calculated error values Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2. The error location value x.sub.1 calculator is preferably constituted by logic gates which enable the apparatus to be smaller and faster than those using a conventional ROM table.

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