公开(公告)号：US20250024039A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-16

申请号：US18780006

申请日：2024-07-22

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: Wedgelet-based coding for 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.

公开(公告)号：US20240106997A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-28

申请号：US18534932

申请日：2023-12-11

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE ,  Gerhard TECH ,  Hunn RHEE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61

CPC classification number: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/197 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61

Abstract: Embodiments are described which exploit a finding, according to which a higher compression rate or better rate/distortion ratio may be achieved by adopting or predicting second coding parameters used for encoding a second view of the multi-view signal from first coding parameters used in encoding a first view of the multi-view signal. In other words, the inventors found out that the redundancies between views of a multi-view signal are not restricted to the views themselves, such as the video information thereof, but that the coding parameters in parallelly encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.

公开(公告)号：US20210112244A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17131333

申请日：2020-12-22

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

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：US20200252649A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-06

申请号：US16855058

申请日：2020-04-22

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/567 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/109 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N13/111

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：US20190297334A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US16437185

申请日：2019-06-11

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 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/105

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：US20180098091A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15820687

申请日：2017-11-22

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N13/00 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/109 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/567 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/30

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：US20240292025A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18424332

申请日：2024-01-26

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  H04N13/00 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/109 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/567 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/80

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：US20230353726A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-02

申请号：US18297312

申请日：2023-04-07

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

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

CPC classification number: 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：US20220303519A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17715757

申请日：2022-04-07

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE ,  Gerhard TECH ,  Hunn RHEE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176

Abstract: Embodiments are described which exploit a finding, according to which a higher compression rate or better rate/distortion ratio may be achieved by adopting or predicting second coding parameters used for encoding a second view of the multi-view signal from first coding parameters used in encoding a first view of the multi-view signal. In other words, the inventors found out that the redundancies between views of a multi-view signal are not restricted to the views themselves, such as the video information thereof, but that the coding parameters in parallelly encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.

公开(公告)号：US20220109842A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17407974

申请日：2021-08-20

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten Mueller

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: Wedgelet-based coding for 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.