公开(公告)号：US20200128260A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-23

申请号：US16720054

申请日：2019-12-19

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.

公开(公告)号：US20190253729A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-15

申请号：US16397166

申请日：2019-04-29

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

IPC: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/105

CPC classification number: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US20190058866A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-21

申请号：US16167702

申请日：2018-10-23

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC

Inventor： Gerhard TECH ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N13/122 ,  H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/111

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured—starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.

公开(公告)号：US20160381391A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-29

申请号：US15257376

申请日：2016-09-06

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/105

CPC classification number: H04N19/597 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/109 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/521 ,  H04N19/567 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N2013/0081

Abstract: Hybrid video decoder supporting intermediate view synthesis of an intermediate view video from a first- and a second-view video which are predictively coded into a multi-view data signal with frames of the second-view video being spatially subdivided into sub-regions and the multi-view data signal having a prediction mode is provided, having: an extractor configured to respectively extract, from the multi-view data signal, for sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, a disparity vector and a prediction residual; a predictive reconstructor configured to reconstruct the sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, by generating a prediction from a reconstructed version of a portion of frames of the first-view video using the disparity vectors and a prediction residual for the respective sub-regions; and an intermediate view synthesizer configured to reconstruct first portions of the intermediate view video.

公开(公告)号：US20160309153A1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-20

申请号：US15198029

申请日：2016-06-30

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/176

CPC classification number: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: Wedgelet-based coding in conjunction with the usage of coding blocks of varying size is rendered more efficient by the usage of a variable length coded syntax element having a prefix and a suffix, wherein the size of the suffix is dependent on the prefix and the size of the current coding block. By this measure, it is feasible to efficiently adapt the length of the variable-length coded syntax element which controls the bi-partitioning of the current coding block to the actual needs, namely the size, of the current coding block, and the variability of the bi-partitioning by varying the wedglet separation line, respectively. The greater the current coding block is, the longer the variable-length coded syntax element may be. This length dependency may even be sufficiently effective in terms of coding efficiency so that the variable length coded syntax element may be coded without context-adaptive entropy coding, but directly or using fixed-equal-probability binary entropy coding.

Abstract translation: 通过使用具有前缀和后缀的可变长度编码语法元素，使用基于Wedgelet的编码与不同大小的编码块的使用相结合，其中后缀的大小取决于前缀和大小 的当前编码块。 通过这种措施，可以将控制当前编码块的双分割的可变长度编码语法元素的长度有效地适应实际需要，即当前编码块的大小，以及当前编码块的大小 分别通过改变wedglet分离线进行双重分割。 当前编码块越大，可变长度编码语法元素可能越长。 这种长度依赖性甚至可以在编码效率方面足够有效，使得可变长度编码语法元素可以被编码而不需要上下文自适应熵编码，而是直接地或者使用固定等概率二进制熵编码。

公开(公告)号：US20250008092A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18884282

申请日：2024-09-13

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used.

公开(公告)号：US20240430473A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18757056

申请日：2024-06-27

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

IPC: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US20220286660A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17824336

申请日：2022-05-25

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Gerhard TECH ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N13/128 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N13/122

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured—starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.

公开(公告)号：US20210168380A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-03

申请号：US17172851

申请日：2021-02-10

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/61

Abstract: The way of predicting a current block by assigning constant partition values to the partitions of a bi-partitioning of a block is quite effective, especially in case of coding sample arrays such as depth/disparity maps where the content of these sample arrays is mostly composed of plateaus or simple connected regions of similar value separated from each other by steep edges. The transmission of such constant partition values would, however, still need a considerable amount of side information which should be avoided. This side information rate may be further reduced if mean values of values of neighboring samples associated or adjoining the respective partitions are used as predictors for the constant partition values.

公开(公告)号：US20210058599A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US17080001

申请日：2020-10-26

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC

Inventor： Gerhard TECH ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N13/128 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N13/122

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured—starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.