Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Ryuichi Kanoh

Takahiro Nishi

Tadamasa Toma

Kiyofumi Abe

Chong Soon Lim

Hai Wei Sun

Han Boon Teo

Ru Ling Liao

Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar

Jing Ya Li

Takashi Hashimoto

Masato Ohkawa

Hideo Saitou

Virginie Drugeon

Luca Rigazio

Alec Hodgkinson

An encoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry, wherein the circuitry, in operation, performs a partition process. The partition process includes calculating first values of a set of pixels between a first partition and a second partition in a current block, using a first motion vector for the first partition; calculating second values of the set of pixels, using a second motion vector for the second partition; and calculating third values of the set of pixels by weighting the first values and the second values. When a ratio of a width to a height of the current block is larger than 4 or a ratio of the height to the width of the current block is larger than 4, the circuitry disables the partition process.

Image encoder and related non-transitory computer readable medium for image decoding

An encoder includes memory and circuitry. The circuitry: derives a first motion vector in a unit of a prediction block using a first inter frame prediction mode that uses a degree of matching between two reconstructed images of two regions in two difference pictures, the prediction block being obtained by splitting an image included in a video; and performs, in the unit of the prediction block, a first motion compensation process that generates a prediction image by referring to a spatial gradient of luminance in an image generated by performing motion compensation using the first motion vector derived.

Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method

A decoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in a first operating mode, derives first motion vectors for a first block obtained by splitting a picture, using a first inter prediction scheme, and generates a prediction image corresponding to the first block, by referring to spatial gradients of luminance generated based on the first motion vectors. Using the memory, the circuitry, in a second operating mode, derives second motion vectors for a sub-block obtained by splitting a second block, using a second inter prediction scheme different from the first inter prediction scheme, the second block being obtained by splitting the picture, and generates a prediction image corresponding to the sub-block without referring to spatial gradients of luminance.

An encoder partitions into blocks using a set of block partition modes. The set of block partition modes includes a first partition mode for partitioning a first block, and a second block partition mode for partitioning a second block which is one of blocks obtained after the first block is partitioned. When the number of partitions of the first block partition mode is three, the second block is a center block among the blocks obtained after partitioning the first block, and the partition direction of the second block partition mode is same as the partition direction of the first block partition mode, the second block partition mode indicates that the number of partitions is only three. A parameter for identifying the second block partition mode includes a first flag indicating a horizontal or vertical partition direction, and does not include a second flag indicating the number of partitions.

Encoder, decoder, encoding method, decoding method, and recording medium

Various embodiments provide an encoder that generates a plurality of quantization matrix elements for a current block; generates a quantization matrix using the plurality of quantization matrix elements; and quantizes, using the quantization matrix, transform coefficients of the current block. The quantization matrix includes only a subset of quantization matrix elements of the plurality of quantization matrix elements. Each of the subset of quantization matrix elements has an x-coordinate value less than a threshold x-coordinate value, a y-coordinate value less than a threshold y-coordinate value, or an x-coordinate value less than the threshold x-coordinate value and a y-coordinate value less than the threshold y-coordinate value.

Encoder, decoder, and related non-transitory computer readable medium

An encoder, includes: circuitry; and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: in inter prediction for a current block, determines a base motion vector, and writes, in an encoded signal, a delta motion vector representing (i) one direction among a plurality of directions including a diagonal direction and (ii) a distance from the base motion vector; and encodes the current block using the delta motion vector and the base motion vector as a motion vector of the current block.

An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory, in which using the memory, the circuitry, in affine motion compensation prediction in inter prediction for a current block, places a limit on a range within which motion estimation or motion compensation is performed, and performs the motion compensation for the current block.

An image encoder performs a first partitioning including using a first partition mode, without writing first splitting information indicative of the first partition mode into a bitstream, to split a first block into a plurality of second blocks in response to that the first block is located adjacent to an edge of a picture and that the dimensions of the first block satisfy a first condition; and performs a second partitioning on the second block by writing second splitting information indicative of a second partition mode into the bitstream, and using the second partition mode to split the second block into a plurality of coding units (CUs), wherein the second partition mode prohibits the quad tree splitting of the second block in certain conditions.

Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method using a first partition mode to split a first block into a plurality of second blocks and a second partition mode to split the second block into a plurality of coding units

An encoder that encodes a current block in a picture includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: splits the current block into a first sub block, a second sub block, and a third sub block in a first direction, the second sub block being located between the first sub block and the third sub block; prohibits splitting the second sub block into two partitions in the first direction; and encodes the first sub block, the second sub block, and the third sub block.

An encoding method includes: determining a merge mode to be applied to a current block, the merge mode including a sub-block merge mode and a first merge mode, wherein in the merge mode, inter-prediction parameters are inferred from a neighboring block neighboring the current block, and wherein in the sub-block merge mode, the current block includes a plurality of sub-blocks, and inter-prediction parameters are provided for each of the plurality of sub-blocks; in response to the merge mode being determined to be the first merge mode, generating a prediction image for the current block by performing a bi-directional optical flow prediction process, wherein the bi-directional optical flow prediction process uses a spatial gradient for the current block; and in response to the merge mode being determined to be the sub-block merge mode, generating a prediction image for the current block by not performing the bi-directional optical flow prediction process.

Encoding method, decoding method, and processing method

An encoder which encodes a current block to be encoded in an image includes: a transformer which performs a primary transform from residuals of the current block to primary coefficients, determines whether to apply a secondary transform to the current block, and performs the secondary transform from the primary coefficients to secondary coefficients when the secondary transform is applied; a quantizer which calculates quantized primary coefficients by performing a first quantization on the primary coefficients when a secondary transform is not applied, and calculates quantized secondary coefficients by performing a second quantization different from the first quantization on the secondary coefficients when the secondary transform is applied; and an entropy encoder which generates an encoded bitstream by encoding either quantized primary coefficients or quantized secondary coefficients.

An encoder that; obtains two prediction images by performing motion compensation using two motion vectors; obtains a gradient value of each of pixels included in the two prediction images; derives a local motion estimation value for each of sub-blocks based on the pixel value and the gradient value of each of the pixels, the sub-blocks being obtained by partitioning the current block; and generates a final prediction image for the current block using the pixel value and the gradient value of each of the pixels, and the local motion estimation value derived for each of the sub-blocks. Each of the pixels in the two prediction images is interpolated with sub-pixel accuracy, and a reference range for the interpolation is included in a normal reference range that is referred to for motion compensation for the current block in normal inter prediction performed without using the local motion estimation value.

An encoder that encodes a current block in a picture includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: performs a first transform on a residual signal of the current block using a first transform basis to generate first transform coefficients; and performs a second transform on the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis to generate second transform coefficients and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the first transform basis is the same as a predetermined transform basis; and quantizes the first transform coefficients without performing the second transform, when the first transform basis is different from the predetermined transform basis.

Encoder, encoding method, decoder, and decoding method

Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry splits an image block into a plurality of partitions, obtains a prediction image for a partition, and encodes the image block using the prediction image. When the partition is not a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains (i) a first prediction image for the partition, (ii) a gradient image for the first prediction image, and (iii) a second prediction image as the prediction image using the first prediction image and the gradient image. When the partition is a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains the first prediction image as the prediction image without using the gradient image.

An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry, in inter prediction processing: derives a first motion vector of a current block to be processed, using a motion vector of a previous block which has been previously processed; derives a second motion vector of the current block by performing motion estimation in the vicinity of the first motion vector; and generates a prediction image of the current block by performing motion compensation using the second motion vector.

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