公开(公告)号：US20170332093A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15657813

申请日：2017-07-24

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20170332086A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15663212

申请日：2017-07-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

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：US20170318313A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15655445

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

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：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：US20210409739A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US17412171

申请日：2021-08-25

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Tobias HINZ ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Mischa SIEKMANN ,  Karsten SUEHRING ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Ali Atef Ibrahim KHAIRAT ABDELHAMID ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/34 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/615

Abstract: A scalable video decoder is described which is configured to reconstruct a base layer signal from a coded data stream to obtain a reconstructed base layer signal; and reconstruct an enhancement layer signal including spatially or temporally predicting a portion of an enhancement layer signal, currently to be reconstructed, from an already reconstructed portion of the enhancement layer signal to obtain an enhancement layer internal prediction signal; forming, at the portion currently to be reconstructed, a weighted average of an inter-layer prediction signal obtained from the reconstructed base layer signal, and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal to obtain an enhancement layer prediction signal such that a weighting between the inter-layer prediction signal and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal varies over different spatial frequency components; and predictively reconstructing the enhancement layer signal using the enhancement layer prediction signal.

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：US20190246120A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16385602

申请日：2019-04-16

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20170332088A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15663256

申请日：2017-07-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

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：US20170318299A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15655329

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

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.