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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2024
Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, CN;
Xinwei Li, Beijing, CN;
Ru-Ling Liao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jie Chen, Beijing, CN;
Yan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, CN;
Abstract
Methods are provided for optical flow-based motion refinement. An exemplary method includes: receiving a bitstream; and decoding, using coded information of the bitstream, one or more pictures, wherein the decoding includes: determining whether a current block is coded by partitioning into multiple parts; and in response to the current block being partitioned into multiple parts that are inter predicted according to respective reference blocks, determining whether to apply a local illumination compensation (LIC) process to the multiple parts based on whether a coded block applies the LIC process.