Lg Electronics Inc.

Jiwook Jung

Sehoon Yea

Jaewon Sung

Eunyong Son

Jin Seong Heo

Taesup Kim

Moonmo Koo

A video decoding method that includes: receiving information for deriving motion information of a current block; deriving the motion information of the current block based on the received information for deriving the motion information; and performing prediction to generate predicted pixels of the current block based on the motion information of the current block, wherein the motion information of the current block is determined by using motion information of a reference block, wherein the reference block is determined based on a specific disparity vector, wherein the specific disparity vector is determined for an area in a picture to which the current block belongs, wherein the area which the specific disparity vector is determined is split based on a quad tree structure, and wherein the current block is a block of a texture picture and the reference block is a block in a reference view is disclosed.

Image encoding method and image decoding method

A method for processing video signals by a decoding apparatus includes determining whether the temporal neighboring block of a current texture block is coded using inter-view prediction; and determining whether the spatial neighboring block of the current texture block is coded using inter-view prediction. When the temporal neighboring block and the spatial neighboring block are not coded using the inter-view prediction, deriving an inter-view motion vector of the current texture block as a disparity vector, and performing inter-view prediction for the current texture block using the derived inter-view motion vector of the current texture block. The disparity vector is obtained using a depth value according the current texture block.

Method and apparatus for processing video signals using inter-view inter-prediction

According to the present invention, an inter-view motion vector of a current coding unit is acquired using parallel processing information, and a motion vector of a current prediction unit in the current coding unit is acquired in parallel using the inter-view motion vector of the current coding unit. The present invention relates to a method and device for processing a video signal, wherein a motion vector prediction value of the current prediction unit is acquired by comparing output order information of a reference picture corresponding to the current prediction unit and output order information of a reference picture corresponding to a corresponding block. According to the present invention, through a parallel processing step, a multi-view point video image can be quickly restored, and the accuracy of the motion vector prediction value can be increased using motion information corresponding to the reference picture of the corresponding block of a different view point from the current prediction unit.

Method and device for processing video signal

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for coding a video signal, and more specifically, a motion vector between viewpoints is obtained by using a depth value of a depth block, which corresponds to a current texture block, and an illumination difference is compensated. By obtaining the motion vector between the viewpoints by using the depth value of the depth block, which corresponds to the current texture block, and compensating the illumination difference, the present invention can obtain an accurate prediction value of the current texture block and thus increase accuracy in inter-prediction between the viewpoints.

Method and apparatus for processing video signal

The present invention relates to a video signal processing method and device capable of: obtaining a reference view block by using a predetermined motion vector; obtaining the depth value of a reference block which corresponds to the reference view block; obtaining an inter-view motion vector for a current block by using at least one depth value of the reference depth block; and decoding the current block by using the inter-view motion vector.

Video signal processing method and device

The present invention relates to inter-view residual prediction and is characterized by obtaining residual data of a first reference block by using a motion vector of a neighboring block, obtaining residual data of a second reference block by using a reference view motion vector or a disparity vector, obtaining a residual data prediction value by using the residual data of the first reference block and the residual data of the second reference block, and coding a current texture block by using the residual data prediction value. The present invention can perform inter-view residual prediction by using a prediction value obtained using coded data of another view point belonging to the same time band to increase the accuracy of video data prediction by using a correlation between view points and reduce the amount of residual data to be transmitted, thereby improving the coding efficiency. In addition, the complexity in coding process may be reduced by adding a condition for applying the inter-view residual prediction.

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing video signals, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for processing video signals which applies deformation compensation to decode a current texture block. The present invention can increase the accuracy of an inter-prediction by obtaining the position of a block within a reference picture referenced by the current texture block, by means of using deformation compensation parameter information, and obtaining a pixel value of the block within the reference picture that is obtained from a prediction value of the current texture block.

Method and apparatus for processing video signals

The present invention variably adjusts the maximum splitting information of a conversion unit according to the type of prediction unit and the splitting information on a coding unit and selects the optimal splitting information on the conversion unit. The present invention determines the maximum splitting information on the conversion unit of a depth block by using the maximum splitting information on the conversion unit for texture data. The present invention may lower complexity without a loss in efficiency by variably adjusting the maximum splitting information on the conversion unit in consideration of the characteristics of the depth data. The present invention may lower complexity by determining the maximum splitting information on the conversion unit of the depth data by using similar characteristics between the texture data and the depth data.

Method and device for determining a unit of a transform unit used in video signal processing

The present invention relates to a method for processing a video signal and a video decoder, wherein an offset parameter of a reference block is acquired, an offset parameter of a current block is acquired by using the offset parameter of the reference block, an adaptive parameter is applied to the current block by using the offset parameter of the current block, and the reference block is a block in a different view point from the current block. According to the present invention, an accurate adaptive parameter can be applied to the current block by using an offset parameter of a reference view point in consideration of a difference between view points when obtaining the offset parameter of the current block.

According to the present invention, a method for processing video signals can determine an interview motion vector of a current block using an interview motion vector of a temporal neighboring block in consideration of a global motion vector. The present invention can obtain an accurate interview motion vector according to obtaining the temporal neighboring block of the current block in consideration of a motion change according to output sequence information and accordingly, can increase the accuracy of inter-prediction.

According to the present invention, a method of processing a video signal includes the steps of: receiving the depth data corresponding to a given block containing present pixels; determining a variation of the depth data; comparing the variation of the depth data with a predetermined value; if the variation is less than the predetermined value, coding the present pixels by using a first partial filter, and if the variation is greater than the predetermined value, coding the present pixels by using a second partial filter; wherein the second partial filter is applied to a wider range than the first partial filter. Accordingly the image quality of improved; the complexity according to the filter application is reduced; and at the same time variable filtering may improve the coding efficiency.

Method and apparatus for selecting a filter based on a variance of depth data

The video signal decoding method according to the present invention involves acquiring weighting-value predicting data of a neighboring view texture block corresponding to the current view texture block, deriving weighting-value predicting data of the current view texture block by using the weighting-value predicting data of the neighboring view texture block, and subjecting the current view texture block to weighting-value compensation by using the derived weighting-value predicting data.

Multiview video signal encoding method and decoding method, and device therefor

The present invention relates to a video signal processing method and device and is capable of acquiring differential depth index information on the basis of a predetermined binarization method, acquiring a differential depth value by using the differential depth index information, acquiring the depth value of a current depth block by using the differential depth value, and decoding the current depth block by using the depth value of the current depth block. The present invention can increase encoding efficiency.

The present invention relates to a method for processing a video signal, comprising the step of inducing an inter-view motion vector of a current texture block by considering priorities between inter-view motion vector candidates of the current texture block, wherein the inter-view motion vector candidates include an inter-view motion vector of a spatial neighboring block, an inter-view motion vector of a temporal neighboring block and/or a reference inter-view motion vector, and inter-view inter prediction is performed by using the induced inter-view motion vector. The present invention can increase the accuracy of the inter-view inter prediction by selectively using the inter-view motion vector of a spatial neighboring block, the inter-view motion vector of a temporal neighboring block and/or the reference inter-view motion vector to induce an accurate inter-view motion vector, and can improve coding efficiency by reducing the amount of residual data to be transmitted.

The method for processing a multiview video signal according to the present invention acquires motion information generated by predictively coding a picture of a reference point, acquires motion information on a part of a block of the picture from among the motion information generated by predictively coding the picture of a non-reference point, and compresses the motion information acquired for every picture of the reference point and non-reference point and stores the compressed motion information.

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Jiwook Jung