Sk Telecom Company, Ltd.

Yonsei University

Ideahub Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yoonsik Choe

Yonggoo Kim

Yungho Choi

Jeongyeon Lim

Sunyeon Kim

Gyumin Lee

Jaehoon Choi

Jinhan Song

Yung Ho Choi

HaYoon Kim

Jinwoo Jeong

Hayoon Kim

Byongho Kim

Jang Won Choi

Sungjei Kim

Jinwoo Jung

Junhyuk Ahn

Jongho Kim

Youngsu Moon

Sangsu Lee

Shinhaeng Kim

Younghun Jo

Ji Hong Kang

Sang Jae Park

Gihwan Lee

Byungseok Min

Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for encoding and decoding an image. The present invention provides an intra prediction unit that receives an input image, calculates a correlation between a Luma area block and Chroma area block in the input image in intra prediction, removes high frequency ingredients by low-pass filtering an encoded luma pixel based on the calculated correlation, and generates a prediction block by applying an LM chroma mode, which is an extended chroma mode technique, to the luma pixel removed therefrom the high frequency ingredients.

Method, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding image using LM chroma prediction

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic apparatus may include: a display configured to display an image; and a processor configured to: adjust, for each of sub areas having a specified size in an image quality degradation anticipation area of an image, a pixel value of at least one adjustment pixel among a plurality of pixels included in each sub area, and change the adjustment pixel into another pixel among the plurality of pixels, while maintaining a representative value of the plurality of pixels included in each sub area.

Electronic apparatus and control method thereof

Method, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding image

Disclosed is a method for encoding a motion vector by using spatial division, the method comprises: aggregating predicted motion vector candidates of a current block into a plurality of groups; selecting representative predicted motion vectors for respective groups by selecting one of aggregated predicted motion vector candidates within the respective groups as representative predicted motion vector; selecting single representative predicted motion vector from the representative predicted motion vectors for the respective groups as a predicted motion vector; and encoding a differential vector representing difference between a current motion vector of the current block and a selected predicted motion vector.

Method and apparatus for motion vector encoding/decoding using spatial division, and method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding using same

A video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using split prediction is provided. The video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using split prediction splits a block into various partition shapes in addition to a conventional standardized right-angled quadrangular shape so as to effectively predict an image of a current block from a previous image and thus, may more improve the performance of video data compression and may achieve superior reconstructed image quality.

Method and device for image encoding/decoding using block split prediction

The present disclosure provides an apparatus for encoding additional intra-information includes an intra prediction mode selecting unit for performing an intra prediction by applying at least one of one or more predetermined types of partitions and one or more prediction modes with respect to a coding unit, and for selecting at least one of a partition among the one or more types of partitions and a prediction mode among the one or more prediction modes; a partitioning and prediction mode table lookup unit for looking up a table, and for generating a table hit signal if the table has at least one of a partition corresponding to the selected partition and a prediction mode corresponding to the selected prediction mode; and an entropy encoding unit for performing an encoding based on the table, if the table hit signal is received.

Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding additional intra-information

A hybrid block motion compensation/adaptive overlapped block motion compensation apparatus for an encoding apparatus includes: a selector for selecting between a block motion compensation BMC and an overlapped block motion compensation OBMC with respect to a current block in units of pixels according to a set criterion; an adaptive motion compensator; a scan mode setter for scanning the current block in a plurality of set scan modes and establishing a scan mode causing a smallest number of transitions between the BMC and OBMC; and an information recorder for recording transition information at locations of the pixels corresponding to the transitions between the BMC and OBMC. A decoding apparatus is disclosed including: an interpreter for scan mode information of a current block and information about transitions between the BMC and OBMC for each of pixels of the current block; and an adaptive motion compensator for operating in units of the pixels.

Motion picture encoding/decoding apparatus, and method and apparatus for hybrid block motion compensation/overlapped block motion compensation for same

A video encoding apparatus, a video decoding apparatus and method by using parallel intra-prediction by a coding unit-level are provided. The video encoding apparatus includes a left extrapolation pixel generating unit for generating left extrapolation pixels for a coding unit by using at least one of pixels of a top left block of the coding unit according to a direction of an intra-prediction mode with respect to the coding unit and leftmost original pixels of the coding unit; an intra-prediction encoding unit for predicting the coding unit by using neighboring pixels including the left extrapolation pixels to generate a first prediction block and encode the coding unit; and

Method and device for encoding and decoding by using parallel intraprediction by a coding unit

A video encoding/decoding apparatus, an adaptive deblocking filtering apparatus and a filtering method for same, and a recording medium are disclosed. The filtering apparatus includes: a boundary strength determiner for determining strength of boundaries between subblocks of current block; a direction selector for selecting multiple directions preset with reference to the boundary sequentially; a filtering pixel selector for selecting pixels for filtering based on selected directions; a filtering determiner for determining whether to perform the filtering for the selected directions depending on relationships between pixel values of selected pixels; and a filtering unit for filtering the selected pixels in the selected directions depending on the determination of whether to perform filtering to apply pixel-wide deblocking filtering in a plurality of directions as well as in vertical and horizontal directions, thus effectively removing block distortions resulting from a diagonal discontinuity caused by edges in a plurality of diagonal directions.

Motion picture encoding/decoding apparatus, adaptive deblocking filtering apparatus and filtering method for same, and recording medium

An intra prediction encoding apparatus includes: an optimal filter selecting unit for providing a plurality of extrapolation prediction filter candidates for filtering pixels adjacent to a current block to be encoded, with respect to each intra prediction direction or prediction mode of the current block, and selecting a filter having lowest encoding cost among the plurality of extrapolation prediction filter candidates; a residual signal generating unit for generating an extrapolation prediction value of the current block through the filter selected by the optimal filter selecting unit, and generating a residual signal by calculating a difference between a generated extrapolation prediction value of the current block and a pixel value of the current block; a transform and quantization unit for performing transform and quantization on the residual signal generated by the residual signal generating unit; and an entropy encoding unit for performing entropy encoding on a transformed and quantized residual signal.

Device and method for competition-based intra prediction encoding/decoding using multiple prediction filters

The present disclosure relates to extracting correlation parameters between color planes for prediction by extracting optimum correlation parameters between the color planes using neighboring blocks when a prediction screen is generated through the use of the correlation between the color planes in video encoding. The technology includes neighboring block searching unit responsive to a second block of a reconstructed previous plane corresponding to a first block to be encoded of a current plane, for searching for a third block belonging to neighboring blocks of the second block and having smallest difference in pixel value from the second block; correlation parameter calculator for calculating correlation parameters between the third block and a fourth block reconstructed of the current plane and corresponding to the third block, based on the third block and the fourth block, and predictor for predicting the first block based on the second block and calculated correlation parameters.

Device and method for extracting correlation parameters between colour planes for prediction, and a recording medium for the same

A video encoding/decoding method and apparatus that may omit a filtering mode is provided. The video encoding/decoding method and apparatus may determine whether to perform filtering on the intra-predicted image for the purpose of obtaining a natural intra-predicted image by using a characteristic of neighboring pixels or an intra-predicted image and thus, may omit additional information for indicating whether filtering is required and improves the performance of compression.

Method and device for encoding/ decoding image having removable filtering mode

A video encoding apparatus using an inter-prediction includes: a video encoder to determine a current motion vector of a current block, predict the current block by using the determined current motion vector, and encode a residual block representing a difference between the predicted block and the current block; and a motion vector encoder to determine a candidate predicted motion vector set based on motion information of neighboring blocks of the current block, select a predicted motion vector of the current motion vector from among the two candidate predicted motion vectors in the candidate predicted motion vector set, and encode a differential vector representing a difference between the current motion vector and the selected predicted motion vector and a predicted motion vector index indicating the selected predicted motion vector among the two candidate predicted motion vectors.

Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a motion vector by selecting a set of predicted candidate motion vectors, and method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding using the same

A method of encoding a motion vector includes: selecting one of a plurality of predicted candidate motion vector sets by using motion information of neighboring blocks of a current block; selecting one of predicted candidate motion vectors within a selected predicted candidate motion vector set, as a predicted motion vector; encoding a differential motion vector representing a difference between a current motion vector or motion vector of the current block and a selected predicted motion vector; and encoding a predicted motion vector index indicating the selected predicted motion vector. As a motion vector is encoded after selecting an efficient predicted candidate motion vector set, the size of a differential vector to be encoded can be reduced without necessarily encoding additional information to indicate which set of predicted candidate motion vectors has been selected, resulting in improved compression efficiency of motion vectors and in turn the improved video compression efficiency.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Yoonsik Choe