Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Huawei Technologies,co., Ltd.

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Sun Patent Trust

Semih Esenlik

Anand Meher Kotra

Han Gao

Jianle Chen

Biao Wang

Zhijie Zhao

Elena Alexandrovna Alshina

Ivan Krasnov

Max Blaeser

Yin Zhao

Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy

Roman Igorevich Chernyak

Sriram Sethuraman

Jeeva Raj A

Sagar Kotecha

Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov

Shan Liu

Ye-Kui Wang

Matthias Narroschke

Sergey Yurievich Ikonin

Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev

Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov

Johannes Sauer

Steffen Kamp

André Kaup

Jürgen Seiler

Panqi Jia

Fabian Brand

Thomas Wedi

The present disclosure provides an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus, as well as an encoding method and a decoding method. In particular, the present disclosure relates to block partitioning and signaling the partitioning parameters in a bitstream. An override flag in a slice header indicates whether or not a block is to be partitioned according to a first partition constraint information. The override flag is included in the bitstream and the block is partitioned accordingly.

Video encoder, a video decoder and corresponding methods with improved block partitioning

The present disclosure relates generally to video coding and picture partitioning methods. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with relations between partition constraint elements, by setting partitioning rules for different picture partitioning methods. The disclosure provides devices and corresponding methods for generating or processing a bitstream including encoded pictures, particularly for setting and including partition constraint element into the bitstream. One of the devices is configured to determine a minimum luma size of a leaf block resulting from quadtree splitting (MinQtSizeY), determine a maximum luma size of a coding block where partitioning using a binary tree splitting is allowed (MaxBtSizeY) based on the MinQtSizeY, and include information for the determined MinQtSizeY into the bitstream.

Relation between partition constraint elements

Embodiments provide methods and devices (encoder and/or decoder) of coding a picture. A History Based Motion Vector Prediction (HMVP) list for a current Coding Tree Unit (CTU) row within a tile of a picture is initialized and a CTU of the current CTU row is processed based on the initialized HMVP list.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods using history based motion vector prediction

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

The present disclosure provides a coding method, wherein the coding includes decoding or encoding, and the method comprises determining whether a current coding unit is predicted by application of combined inter-intra prediction (CHIP); and in response to determining that the current coding unit is predicted by application of CIIP, setting a boundary strength of a boundary of the current coding unit to a first value.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods of deblocking filter adaptation

The present disclosure provides methods and devices of processing a block according to a merge candidate list, the method comprising: constructing a first list according to motion information of neighboring blocks of a current block; obtaining prediction information of the current block; when the prediction information of the current block indicates that a sub-block prediction is applied to the current block, obtaining a uni-prediction candidate for the current block according to the first list; using, the uni-prediction candidate for the current block to perform inter prediction of the current block. According to embodiment of the present disclosure, the regular merge list can be directly used and there is no need to explicitly generate the uni-prediction merge candidate list for sub-block prediction.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for merge mode

A decoding method and a decoder for decoding a current block of a video frame is provided, wherein the decoding method comprises determining a list of Most Probable Modes (MPMs) for the current block. When at least one condition is satisfied, the list of MPMs includes a DC mode, a Vertical mode, a Horizontal mode, an intra prediction mode corresponding to a value of the Vertical mode with a first offset, and an intra prediction mode corresponding to the value of the Vertical mode with a second offset. The decoding method further includes obtaining a MPM flag and a MPM index for the current block from a bitstream of the video, and obtaining an intra prediction mode for the current block for reconstructing the current block.

Method and apparatus for intra prediction in video coding

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

It is provided a method of prediction coding of a current block, comprising: obtaining an intra prediction mode of a left neighbor block of the current block and an intra prediction mode of an above neighbor block of the current block; constructing a Most Probable Mode (MPM) list of intra prediction modes for the current block, the MPM list comprising at least 5 entries of intra prediction modes as follows: {ang, 2+((ang+61)%64), 2+((ang−1)%64), 2+((ang+60)%64), 2+((ang) %64)} when at least a first condition is fulfilled, where ang represents the intra prediction mode of the left neighbor block or the intra prediction mode of the above neighbor block.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods using intra mode coding for 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

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

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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