Abstract:
A method and apparatus for processing of coded video using adaptive offset (AO) are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention divide reconstructed video data into multiple filter units and apply adaptive offset to the filter units to generate filtered video data, where boundaries of filter units correspond to boundaries of coding units and each of said filter units contains at least one coding unit. Furthermore, two or more of the multiple filter units can be merged as indicated by a merge index to share the applied adaptive offset. A filter control flag can be used to indicate filter ON/OFF control. The luma and chroma components may also share the same filter information. In another embodiment, the filter information sharing among filter units can be applied regardless whether the boundaries of the filter units are aligned with the boundaries of the coding units.
Abstract:
A physiological status monitoring apparatus is provided. The physiological status monitoring apparatus comprises a motion sensor, an event detector, and an estimator. The motion sensor senses movement of an object to generate a sensing signal. The event detector detects abnormal events occurring on the object according to the sensing signal. The estimator outputs an index according to at least one abnormal event which occurs during a predetermined time period to indicate a possibility of pauses in breathing.
Abstract:
A system and method of content adaptive pixel intensity processing are described. The method includes receiving a predefined set of processed video data configured from the processed video data, deriving a range information associated with an original maximum value and an original minimum value for a predefined set of original video data, wherein the predefined set of processed video data is derived from the predefined set of original video data, and adaptively clipping pixel intensity of the predefined set of processed video data to a range deriving from the range information, wherein the range information is incorporated in a bitstream and represented in a form of the original maximum value and the original minimum value, prediction values associated with a reference maximum value and a reference minimum value, or a range index associated with a predefined range set.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset (SAO) compensation of reconstructed video data are disclosed. In one embodiment, the relation between the current pixel and said one or more neighboring pixels is stored so that the SAO compensated current pixel can replace the current pixel without buffering the to-be-processed pixels for classification. The SAO process may be performed on a region by region basis to adapt to the local characteristics of the picture.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for processing of coded video using adaptive offset (AO) are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention divide reconstructed video data into multiple filter units and apply adaptive offset to the filter units to generate filtered video data, where boundaries of filter units correspond to boundaries of coding units and each filter unit contains at one or more coding units. Furthermore, two or more of the multiple filter units can be merged as indicated by a merge index to share filter information of the adaptive offset. A filter control flag can be used to indicate filter ON/OFF control. The luma and chroma components may also share the same filter information. In another embodiment, the filter information sharing among filter units can be applied regardless of whether the boundaries of the filter units are aligned with the boundaries of the coding units.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for three-dimensional and scalable video coding are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention determine a motion information set associated with the video data, wherein at least part of the motion information set is made available or unavailable conditionally depending on the video data type. The video data type may correspond to depth data, texture data, a view associated with the video data in three-dimensional video coding, or a layer associated with the video data in scalable video coding. The motion information set is then provided for coding or decoding of the video data, other video data, or both. At least a flag may be used to indicate whether part of the motion information set is available or unavailable. Alternatively, a coding profile for the video data may be used to determine whether the motion information is available or not based on the video data type.
Abstract:
Implementations of sample adaptive offset (SAO) processing a reconstructed picture in an image or video coding system are described. In one example implementation, a method may receive input data associated with the reconstructed picture. The method may also perform multiple stages of SAO filtering operations on a SAO processing unit of at least a portion of the reconstructed picture. Information related to a SAO parameter set that signals one or more SAO types, one or more SAO subtypes, one or more SAO offset values, or a combination thereof, used by the multiple stages of SAO filtering operations are encoded or decoded.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for encoding or decoding SAO (sample adaptive offset) parameters in a video encoder or decoder are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention encode or decode signs and magnitudes of SAO offset values separately for a region using band offset, where the signs are coded using bypass mode coding or fixed length coding. In one embodiment, the magnitudes of the SAO offset values for a region are grouped and coded together. If the SAO type is not band offset, the signs of the SAO offset values are omitted from the compressed data associated with the region. In another embodiment, the magnitude of the SAO offset value for band offset is checked to determine whether it is zero. If the magnitude of the SAO offset value is zero, there is no need to incorporate the sign of the SAO offset value in the compressed data.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for loop filter processing of video data in a video encoder or decoder are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention conditionally allow sharing of loop filter parameters. In one embodiment, sharing of loop filter information between the current block and a neighboring block is determined according to a condition. If the condition indicates that sharing of loop filter information is allowed, a merge flag is coded and incorporated in the video bitstream in an encoder, and a merge flag is parsed from the video bitstream and decoded in a decoder. In one embodiment, the condition depends on region partitioning of the picture, where region partitioning partitions the picture into regions and the region may correspond to a slice or a tile. The condition is set to indicate that sharing of loop filter information is allowed if the block and the neighboring block are in a same slice/tile.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for texture image compression in a 3D video coding system are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention derive depth information related to a depth map associated with a texture image and then process the texture image based on the depth information derived. The invention can be applied to the encoder side as well as the decoder side. The encoding order or decoding order for the depth maps and the texture images can be based on block-wise interleaving or picture-wise interleaving. One aspect of the present invent is related to partitioning of the texture image based on depth information of the depth map. Another aspect of the present invention is related to motion vector or motion vector predictor processing based on the depth information.