Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Vid Scale, Inc.

Interdigital Vc Holdings, Inc.

Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, Sas

Xiaoyu Xiu

Xianglin Wang

Yuwen He

Yi-Wen Chen

Yan Ye

Tsung-Chuan Ma

Bing Yu

Hong-Jheng Jhu

Wei Chen

Yong He

Che-Wei Kuo

Shuiming Ye

Jiancong Luo

Jie Dong

Chia-Ming Tsai

Ning Yan

Yan Zhang

Philippe Hanhart

Saurav Bandyopadhyay

George W McClellan

Eun Seok Ryu

Can Bal

Ralph Neff

Chun-Chi Chen

Hua Yang

Han Gao

Byung Kwan Yi

Fanyi Duanmu

Thorsten Laude

Eun Ryu

Maryam Azimi Hashemi

Jiun-Yu Kao

Miaohui Wang

Yun-fei Zheng

Methods and apparatuses are provided for video coding with lossless coding modes. The method includes: partitioning a video picture into a plurality of CUs comprising a lossless CU; determining a residual coding block size of the lossless CU; and in response to determining that the residual coding block size of the lossless CU is greater than a predefined maximum value, splitting the residual coding block into two or more residual blocks for residual coding.

Lossless coding modes for video coding

A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: determining a signaling of merge modes for deriving motion information of a current block, where the merge modes include: regular merge mode and extended merge modes; and deriving motion information of the current block using the regular merge mode, upon determining that the signaling of merge modes includes a positive signal of regular merge mode.

Methods and apparatuses for signaling of merge modes in video coding

Methods and apparatuses are provided for video coding. The method includes: partitioning a picture into a plurality of coding units; partitioning a coding unit of the plurality of coding units into two geometric partitions; and performing a predetermined number of motion vector comparison operations during a process of constructing a merging candidate list for either of the two geometric partitions.

Methods and apparatuses for video coding using geometric partition

A method for video decoding is provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of sub-blocks within an affine coding unit (CU) of a video frame, where the plurality of sub-blocks include a plurality of boundary sub-blocks and a plurality of non-boundary sub-blocks. Further, the method may include applying both overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) and affine secondary prediction (ASP) to at least one sub-block to generate a sub-block-based prediction for the affine CU or enabling the ASP for the plurality of non-boundary sub-block and disabling the OBMC for the plurality of non-boundary sub-blocks.

Overlapped block motion compensation for inter prediction

Systems and methods are described for reducing the complexity of using bi-directional optical flow (BIO) in video coding. In some embodiments, bit-width reduction steps are introduced in the BIO motion refinement process to reduce the maximum bit-width used for BIO calculations. In some embodiments, simplified interpolation filters are used to generate predicted samples in an extended region around a current coding unit. In some embodiments, different interpolation filters are used for vertical versus horizontal interpolation. In some embodiments, BIO is disabled for coding units with small heights and/or for coding units that are predicted using a sub-block level inter prediction technique, such as advanced temporal motion vector prediction (ATMVP) or affine prediction.

Complexity reduction and bit-width control for bi-directional optical flow

A device may determine whether to enable or disable bi-directional optical flow (BIO) for a current coding unit (CU) (e.g., block and/or sub-block). Prediction information for the CU may be identified and may include prediction signals associated with a first reference block and a second reference block (e.g., or a first reference sub-block and a second reference sub-block). A prediction difference may be calculated and may be used to determine the similarity between the two prediction signals. The CU may be reconstructed based on the similarity. For example, whether to reconstruct the CU with BIO enabled or BIO disabled may be based on whether the two prediction signals are similar. It may be determined to enable BIO for the CU when the two prediction signals are determined to be dissimilar. For example, the CU may be reconstructed with BIO disabled when the two prediction signals are determined to be similar.

Motion-compensation prediction based on bi-directional optical flow

A method of video coding comprises independently generating a respective intra prediction for each of a plurality of corresponding sub-partitions. Each respective intra prediction is generated using a plurality of reference samples from a current coding block. Illustratively, no reconstructed sample from a first sub-partition of the plurality of corresponding sub-partitions is used to generate a respective intra prediction for any other sub-partition of the plurality of corresponding sub-partitions, and each of the plurality of corresponding sub-partitions has a width less than or equal to 2.

Video coding using intra sub-partition coding mode

Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video block in geometry partition mode (GPM). The method includes: partitioning the video block into first and second geometric partitions; obtaining a first prediction list for the first geometric partition and obtaining a second prediction list for the second geometric partition; obtaining motion vectors (MVs) for the first and second geometric partitions by applying a GPM with explicit motion signaling (EMS) to the first and second geometric partitions based on the first and second prediction lists; and obtaining prediction samples of the first and second geometric partitions based on the MVs.

Geometric partition mode with explicit motion signaling

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein for calculating local illumination compensation (LIC) parameters for bi-predicted coding unit (CU). The LIC parameters may be used to generate adjusted samples for the current CU and to address local illumination changes that may exist among temporal neighboring pictures. LIC parameters may be calculated based on bi-predicted reference template samples and template samples for a current CU. Bi-predicted reference template samples may be generated based on reference template samples neighboring temporal reference CUs. For example, the bi-predicted reference template samples may be generated based on averaging the reference template samples. The reference template samples may correspond to template samples for the current CU. A CU may be or may include a coding block and/or a sub-block that may be derived by dividing the coding block.

Motion compensated bi-prediction based on local illumination compensation

A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: determining that a combined inter and intra prediction mode is applied to a current coding block; generating an inter prediction of the current coding block based on an inter prediction mode; generating an intra prediction of the current coding block based on an intra prediction mode; generating a final prediction of the current coding block based on the inter prediction and the intra prediction; and determining that a prediction mode of the current coding block is treated as one unified mode when constructing a most probable mode (MPM) list of a neighboring coding block, the unified mode being predefined as an inter mode, or being predefined as an intra mode.

System and method for combined inter and intra prediction

A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for decoding a video signal are provided. A decoder may receive, through a bitstream, arranged syntax elements in sequence parameter set (SPS) level. The arranged syntax elements in the SPS level are arranged so that functions of related syntax elements are grouped in versatile video coding (VVC) syntax at a coding level. The decoder may receive, through the bitstream and in response to multiple syntax elements satisfy a predefined condition, a second syntax element immediately after the multiple syntax elements. The decoder may perform, through the bitstream, a related syntax element function to video data from the bitstream in accordance with the multiple syntax elements and the second syntax element.

High-level syntax for video coding

Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are provided for video coding. In one method, a decoder derives a first and a second reference pictures for a current coding block; the decoder derives a first and a second predictor samples based on a motion vector associated with the first reference picture using a motion compensation process from the first reference picture; the decoder determines whether the first and the second predictor samples are out-of-boundary (OOB), and in response to determining the first or the second predictor sample is OOB, the decoder replaces the first or the second predictor sample that is OOB with a first or a second alternative predictor sample; and the decoder generates the final prediction sample by averaging sample values of the first predictor sample and the second predictor sample.

Motion compensation considering out-of-boundary conditions in video coding

Implementations of the disclosure provide a video decoding apparatus and method for transform coefficient sign prediction on a video decoder side. The method may include selecting a set of candidate transform coefficients from dequantized transform coefficients. The method may include applying a template-based hypothesis generation scheme to select a hypothesis from a plurality of candidate hypotheses for the set of candidate transform coefficients. The method may include determining a combination of sign candidates associated with the selected hypothesis to be a set of predicted signs for the set of candidate transform coefficients. The method may include estimating original signs for the set of candidate transform coefficients based on the set of predicted signs and a sequence of sign signaling bits received from a video encoder. The method may include updating the dequantized transform coefficients based on the estimated original signs for the set of candidate transform coefficients.

Sign prediction for block-based video coding

Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for coding a video signal. A method includes obtaining a first reference picture and a second reference picture associated with a video block; obtaining first prediction samples of the video block from the first reference picture; obtaining second prediction samples of the video block from the second reference picture; obtaining padded prediction samples, and obtaining horizontal and vertical gradient values of the first prediction samples and the second prediction samples based on the padded prediction samples; obtaining motion refinements for samples in the video block based on the horizontal and vertical gradient values; and obtaining bi-prediction samples of the video block based on the motion refinements.

Methods and apparatuses for prediction refinement with optical flow

Implementations of the disclosure provide video processing apparatuses and methods for inter-prediction. A video processing method for the inter-prediction performed by a video decoder includes determining a reference index for a video block in a video frame of a video from a bitstream. The video processing method also includes generating a joint list including a plurality pairs of reference pictures based on a first reference list and a second reference list for the video block. The video processing method further includes reordering the plurality pairs of reference pictures in the joint list based on bilateral matching using one or more motion vectors of the video block to generate a reordered joint list. The video processing method further includes performing the inter-prediction on the video block based on the reordered joint list and the reference index.

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