Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev

Jianle Chen

Sergey Yurievich Ikonin

Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov

Roman Igorevich Chernyak

Elena Alexandrovna Alshina

Biao Wang

Semih Esenlik

Anand Meher Kotra

Yin Zhao

Han Gao

Haitao Yang

Huanbang Chen

Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy

Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov

Maxim Borisovitch Sychev

Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Sosulnikov

Apparatuses and methods for Intra Sub-Partitions (ISP) are provided. The method includes: obtaining information of ISP, and determining a size of a chroma transform block (TB) of the coding unit based on SubWidthC and SubHeightC when at least a first condition is fulfilled. The first condition includes the information of ISP indicates that ISP is used for splitting the luma coding block. SubWidthC and SubHeightC are variables depending on chroma format information. The chroma format information indicates a chroma format of a picture the coding unit belongs to. The method can apply to all chroma format. The chroma format includes at least one of: 4:2:0, or 4:2:2, or 4:4:4. An accurate and versatile way to determine the size of the chroma transform block for the ISP is achieved.

Method and apparatus for intra sub-partitions coding mode

A method and apparatus for decoding data for still or video processing into a bitstream are provided. In particular, two or more sets of feature map elements are obtained from the bitstream. Each set of feature map elements relates to a feature map. Each of the two or more sets of feature map elements is then respectively inputted into two or more feature map processing layers out of a plurality of cascaded layers. The decoded data for picture or video processing is then obtained as a result of the processing by the plurality of cascaded layers. According to the present disclosure, the data may be decoded from the bitstream in an efficient manner in the layered structure.

Method and apparatus for decoding with signaling of feature map data

A method for inverse quantization of a current block of a picture is provided. The method is performed by a decoder, and the picture comprises a luminance component and a chrominance component, where the luminance component and the chrominance component are partitioned into multiple blocks. The method includes obtaining one or more existing quantization parameter (QP) values from a received bitstream, wherein the one or more existing QP values are associated with a current block in the chrominance component; determining a QP value for the current block in the chrominance component based on the one or more existing QP values; performing inverse quantization on the current block in the chrominance component using the determined QP value.

Apparatus and method for inverse quantization

The present invention relates to method and apparatus for motion vector derivation for affine based inter prediction of chroma subblocks based on chroma format. The method includes: determining chroma scaling factors in horizontal and vertical directions based on chroma format information, wherein the chroma format information indicates a chroma format of a current picture which the current image block belongs to; determining a set (S) of luma subblocks of the luma block based on values of the chroma scaling factors; determining a motion vector for a chroma subblock of the chroma block based on motion vectors of one or more luma subblocks in the set (S) of luma subblocks.

Method and apparatus for affine based inter prediction of chroma subblocks

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

The disclosure provides a motion vector compression method, comprising: obtaining a temporal motion vector; determining a compressed motion vector using a binary representation of the temporal motion vector comprising an exponent part and/or a mantissa part, wherein the exponent part comprises N bits, the mantissa part comprises M bits, and wherein N is a non-negative integer and M is a positive integer; and performing a temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) using the compressed motion vector.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods using compact MV storage

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

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for encoding video data into a bitstream and for decoding video data received in a bitstream. A second control flag indicating whether or not to use multi-hypothesis prediction for intra and inter mode is generated and transmitted only conditionally, upon a determination whether or not separate merge list technique for subblock merge candidates is used. On the other hand, a decoder is capable of deciding usage of multi-hypothesis prediction for intra and inter mode and separate merge list technique for subblock merge candidates even though the second control flag is transmitted only conditionally.

Separate merge list for subblock merge candidates and intra-inter techniques harmonization for video coding

A prediction method for an image block comprising a first prediction sub-block and a second prediction sub-block, the prediction method comprising: parsing a first index from a bitstream, wherein the first index is used to obtain prediction information of the first prediction sub-block; parsing a second index from the bitstream; comparing the first index with the second index; adjusting the second index in the event that the second index is equal to or greater than the first index; and obtaining prediction information of the second prediction sub-block according to the adjusted second index.

Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for inter prediction using geometric prediction mode

The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular to determining motion information for a current block using a history-based motion vector predictor, HMVP, list. The HMVP list is constructed, with said list being an ordered list of N HMVP candidates H, k=0, . . . , N−1, which are associated with motion information of N preceding blocks of the frame and precede the current block. Each HMVP candidate has motion information including elements of one or more motion vectors, MVs, one or more reference picture indices corresponding to the MVs, and one or more bi-prediction weight indices. One or more HMVP candidates from the HMVP list are added into a motion information candidate list for the current block; and the motion information is derived based on the motion information candidate list.

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Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev