Abstract:
Methods for palette coding of image and video data to avoid issues associated with zero-size palette or to improve performance by conditionally signaling CU (coding unit)-level escape pixel presence flag are disclosed. In one embodiment, size information related to palette size of a current palette table of the current CU is signaled conditionally based on the escape indication flag, where the escape indication flag indicates whether there is any sample in the current CU coded as an escape pixel. In another embodiment, the CU-level escape pixel presence flag is conditionally signaled according to the current palette size or both of the predicted palette size and the new palette size. Conditionally signaling the palette sharing flag may also be based on the palette sharing flag.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of Intra coding for a block in a coding system. The method includes receiving input data associated with a current block; determining a current Intra prediction mode for the current block; deriving prediction samples for the current block based on reconstructed neighboring samples according to the current Intra prediction mode, wherein a predicting value representing a single prediction value for the current block is determined based on at least two corner samples corresponding to the current block according to the current Intra prediction mode; and applying encoding or decoding to the input data associated with the current block using the prediction samples derived for the current block.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for low-latency illumination compensation in a three-dimensional (3D) and multi-view coding system are disclosed. According to the present invention, the encoder determines whether to enable or disable the illumination compensation for the current picture or slice based on a condition related to statistic associated with a selected reference picture or slice respectively, or related to high-level coding information associated with the current picture or slice respectively. The high-level coding information associated with the current picture or slice excludes any information related to pixel values of the current picture or slice respectively. The illumination compensation is them applied according to the decision made by the encoder. A similar low-latency method is also applied for depth lookup table (DLT) based coding.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for Intra prediction coding in multi-view video coding, three-dimensional video coding, or screen content video coding are disclosed. A first filtering-disable-flag associated with a high-level video data is determined to indicate whether to disable at least one filter from a filter group. If the first filtering-disable-flag is asserted, one or more selected Intra prediction modes from an Intra prediction mode group is determined, and at least one filter from the filter group for the current block is skipped if the current Intra prediction mode of the current block belongs to the selected Intra prediction modes. The system may further determine a second filtering-disable-flag associated with a low-level video data corresponding to a current block level or a higher level than the current block level to disable said at least one filter from a filter group for the low-level video data.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus of depth coding using depth modelling mode 1 (DMM1) are disclosed to reduce the wedgelet pattern table size. In one embodiment, a size-reduced wedgelet pattern for a reduced wedgelet pattern table is generated by excluding at least one non-corner adjacent-edge sample for adjacent-edge partition or at least one opposite-edge sample for opposite-edge partition from starting positions or from ending positions. The reduced wedgelet pattern table may also include at least one omitted wedgelet pattern in at least one wedgelet direction category. For the adjacent-edge partition, the starting positions and the ending positions may correspond to every other even non-corner adjacent-edge samples in a first and a second adjacent edges respectively. For the opposite-edge partition, the starting positions correspond to every other even opposite-edge samples in a first opposite edge and the ending positions include all opposite-edge samples in a second opposite edge.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for 3D (three-dimensional) and multi-view video encoding or decoding of dependent-view texture or depth data using Merge mode with modified list size according to one or more 3D enabling flags are disclosed. An extra-candidate-number indicating one or more extra Merge candidates for the current block is determined according to one or more 3D enabling flags comprising a VSP (view synthesis prediction) flag. A modified list size for a 3D Merge list corresponding to a sum of the extra-candidate-number and an original list size is determined. The 3D Merge list with the modified list size is then determined based on original Merge candidates used to derive the base-view Merge list for video data in a base view and one or more 3D Merge candidates as enabled by the 3D enabling flags according to a priority order.