Qualcomm Incorporated

Yao-Jen Chang

Vadim Seregin

Marta Karczewicz

Muhammed Zeyd Coban

Han Huang

Chun-Chi Chen

Wei-Jung Chien

Yong He

Yan Zhang

Zhi Zhang

Keming Cao

Bappaditya Ray

Kevin Pascal Andre Reuze

Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian

Nan Hu

Cheng-Teh Hsieh

Jingya Li

A method of encoding or decoding video data includes constructing a list of chroma intra-prediction modes for a chroma block of a current block of the video data, wherein constructing includes adding intra-prediction modes of a first group to the list of chroma intra-prediction modes, the first group comprising two or more intra-prediction modes derived from intra-prediction modes of two or more co-located luma blocks of the current block that are co-located with the chroma block; determining an intra-prediction mode for the chroma block from the list of chroma intra-prediction modes; and encoding or decoding the chroma block based on the intra-prediction mode.

Intra chroma mode list construction for video coding

A device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine that a boundary block of a picture of the video data is bi-directional inter-predicted using a first motion vector and a second motion vector, the boundary block having an edge that touches an edge of the picture; decode the picture, including decoding the boundary block; form a first intermediate padding block using the first motion vector; form a second intermediate padding block using the second motion vector; form a padding block using the first intermediate padding block and the second intermediate padding block; and assign padding values of the padding block to a padding region of the picture neighboring the boundary block on an opposite side of the edge of the picture.

Bi-directional prediction boundary pixel padding with out-of-picture-boundary motion vectors

A video coder is configured to determine a reference block of a reference picture for prediction of a current block of a current picture using motion information and to generate a set of reference samples for the current block of the current picture. To generate the set of reference samples, the video coder is configured to perform reference sample clipping on the reference block of the reference picture based on a size of the reference picture. The video coder is further configured to generate a prediction block for the current block of the current picture based on the set of reference samples.

Motion compensation using size of reference picture

A method of coding video data comprises determining, based on a comparison of a threshold and a quantity of reference samples in a selected template, whether the selected template is allowed, wherein a mode index indicates which template from among a plurality of templates is the selected template, wherein each of the templates includes a different set of reconstructed samples that neighbor a current coding unit (CU) of a current picture of the video data; based on determining that the selected template is allowed and that a convolutional cross-component model (CCCM) mode is to be used, applying the CCCM mode to predict chroma samples of the current CU based on reconstructed luma samples of the current CU and the reference samples in the selected template; and; and encoding or decoding the current CU based on the predicted chroma samples of the current CU.

Template selection for intra prediction in video coding

A device for decoding video data can be configured to determine that a block is coded in an overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) mode; determine a first prediction block for the block using a first motion vector for the block; determine a second prediction block for the block using a second motion vector, wherein the second motion is a motion vector of a neighboring block of the block; select an OBMC blending process from a plurality of available OBMC blending processes; blend the first prediction block and the second prediction block using the selected OBMC blending process to determine a blended block; and reconstruct the block using the blended block.

Overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) blending selection in video coding

Systems and techniques are provided for coding video data. In some examples, a process may include obtaining a first plurality of prediction candidates associated with video data. The process may further include determining a first group of prediction candidates at least in part by applying a first grouping method to the first plurality of prediction candidates. The process may include reordering the first group of prediction candidates and selecting a first merge candidate from the reordered first group of prediction candidates. The process may further include adding the first merge candidate to a candidate list.

Motion vector (MV) candidate reordering

A video encoder and video decoder may determine to enable or disable a template-based inter prediction technique based on whether reference picture resampling or weighted prediction are used. A video encoder and video decoder may determine that a reference picture resampling mode is enabled. determine not to apply a template-based inter prediction technique to the video data based on the reference picture resampling mode being enabled, and code the video data using inter prediction without applying the template-based inter prediction technique.

Interaction between reference picture resampling and template-based inter prediction techniques in video coding

A device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine a deterministic bounding box from which to retrieve reference samples of reference pictures of video data for performing decoder-side motion vector derivation (DMVD) for a current block of the video data; derive a motion vector for the current block according to DMVD using the reference samples within the deterministic bounding box; form a prediction block using the motion vector; and decode the current block using the prediction block.

Using unrefined motion vectors for performing decoder-side motion vector derivation

Systems and techniques are provided for overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC). A method can include determining an OBMC mode is enabled for a current subblock of video data; for a neighboring subblock(s) adjacent to the current subblock, determining whether a first, second and third condition are met, the first condition comprising that all reference picture lists for predicting the current subblock are used to predict the neighboring subblock; the second condition comprising that identical reference pictures are used to determine motion vectors associated with the current subblock and the neighboring subblock, and the third condition comprising that a difference between motion vectors of the current subblock and the neighboring subblock do not exceed a threshold; and based on determining that the OBMC mode is enabled and the first, second, and third conditions are met, determining not to use motion information of the neighboring subblock for motion compensation of the current subblock.

Overlapped block motion compensation

A video coder may be configured to determine a partitioning for a block of video data using geometric partitioning mode; construct two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists for the block of video data, and code the block of video data using uni-prediction based on at least one of the two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists to generate a decoded block of video data.

Motion vector candidate construction for geometric partitioning mode in video coding

A device for decoding video data includes memory configured to store the video data and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that a current block of the video data is inter-predicted in a combined inter-intra prediction (CIIP) mode or a geometric partitioning mode (GPM), determine that template matching is enabled for the current block, generate a motion vector for the current block based on template matching; determine a prediction block for the current block based on the motion vector in accordance with the CIIP mode or the GPM, and reconstruct the current block based on the prediction block.

Template matching refinement in inter-prediction modes

A video encoder and video decoder are configured to code video data using multiple reference line processing. The video encoder and video decoder may determine a number of reference lines to use for multiple reference line processing based on an intra prediction mode, and decode a block of video data using the multiple reference line processing based on the number of reference lines.

Candidate lists of multiple reference lines for video coding

A video decoder can be configured to determine that a current block in a current picture of the video data is coded in an affine prediction mode; determine one or more control-point motion vectors (CPMVs) for the current block; identify an initial prediction block for the current block in a reference picture using the one or more CPMVs; determine a current template for the current block in the current picture; and determine an initial reference template for the initial prediction block in the reference picture; and perform a motion vector refinement process to determine a modified prediction block based on a comparison of the current template to the initial reference template.

Template matching based affine prediction for video coding

An example device for decoding video data includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: generate an inter-prediction block for a current block of video data; generate an intra-prediction block for the current block of video data; generate a final prediction block for the current block of video data from the inter-prediction block and the intra-prediction block, including performing each of combined inter/intra prediction (CIIP) mode, overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC), and luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) while generating the final prediction block; and decode the current block of video data using the final prediction block. To generate the final prediction block, the processors may perform LMCS on a first inter-prediction sub-block, combine the LMCS-mapped first inter-prediction sub-block with the intra-prediction block using CIIP, and perform OBMC between the first CIIP prediction block and a second inter-prediction sub-block.

Video coding using overlapped block motion compensation, combined inter-intra prediction, and/or luma mapping and chroma scaling

A video coder may code a block of video data using an intra prediction mode determined from a most probable mode list. The video coder may construct a general most probable mode list containing N entries, wherein the N entries of the general most probable mode list are intra prediction modes, and wherein a planar mode is an ordinal first entry in the general most probable mode list, construct a primary most probable mode list from a first Np entries in the general most probable mode list, where Np is less than N, and construct a secondary most probable mode list from a remaining (N−Np) entries in the general most probable mode list. The video coder may then determine a current intra prediction mode for a current block of video data using the primary most probable mode list or the secondary most probable mode list.

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