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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Claudionor Coelho, Redwood City, CA (US);
Aki Kuusela, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shan Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Dake He, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for encoding a block of a picture includes a convolutional neural network (CNN) for determining a block partitioning of the block, the block having an N×N size and a smallest partition determined by the CNN being of size S×S. The CNN includes feature extraction layers; a concatenation layer that receives, from the feature extraction layers, first feature maps of the block, where each first feature map of the first feature maps is of the smallest possible partition size S×S of the block; and at least one classifier that is configured to infer partition decisions for sub-blocks of size (αS)×(αS) of the block, where α is a power of 2.