Abstract:
Methods and devices for decoding, in a video decoder, a block of enhancement-layer transform domain data for an enhancement-layer encoded video and corresponding to a reconstructed block of reference-layer transform domain data, are provided. The method includes determining a context for an enhancement-layer element based, at least in part, upon elements in the corresponding reconstructed block of reference-layer transform domain data, wherein the elements are identified by a template and wherein the position of the template in the reference-layer reconstructed block is based upon the position of that enhancement-layer element in the block of enhancement-layer transform domain data.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for reconstructing coefficient levels from a bitstream of encoded video data for a coefficient group in a transform unit, and corresponding methods and devices for encoding are provided. The method of reconstructing includes, for each of the non-zero coefficients in the coefficient group, in scan order, decoding a greater-than-one flag for that non-zero coefficient if fewer than two previously-decoded greater-than-one flags for that coefficient group are equal to one. The coefficient levels for the non-zero coefficients are reconstructed based, at least in part, upon the decoded greater-than-one flags.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for encoding and decoding data using transform domain filtering are described. The encoder determines a set of transform domain filter coefficients to be applied to a transform domain prediction. The filtering may, in some cases, also apply to transform domain reconstructions. Rate-distortion optimization may be used to determine the optimal filter coefficients on a frame-basis, coding-unit-basis, or other basis. Multiple filters may be developed and communicated from the encoder to the decoder for different combinations of transform block size, coding mode, prediction mode, and texture type. In other cases, the filtering is applied in the pixel-domain to a pixel-domain prediction or a pixel-domain reconstruction of a block of samples.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for encoding and decoding scalable video are described. In one aspect, a method of reconstructing, in a video decoder, an enhancement-layer image based upon a reconstructed reference-layer image using inter-layer prediction is described. The method includes reconstructing a reference-layer residual and a reference-layer prediction, wherein the reference-layer residual and the reference-layer prediction, when combined, form the reconstructed reference-layer image; up-sampling the reference-layer residual using a first up-sampling operation; up-sampling the reference-layer prediction using a second up-sampling operation different from the first up-sampling operation; generating an inter-layer prediction using the up-sampled reference-layer residual and the up-sampled reference-layer prediction; and reconstructing the enhancement-layer image based upon the inter-layer prediction.
Abstract:
A method of encoding video data using soft decision quantization makes use of iterative encoding to provide the ability to optimize encoding across different functional elements in a hybrid video encoder. Iterative encoding is used to allow quantization step size, motion prediction and quantization levels to be optimized despite their interrelated nature.
Abstract:
Methods of encoding and decoding for video data for encoding or decoding a sequence of greater-than-one flags for a coefficient group are provided. Context-based encoding and decoding selects a context for encoding or decoding the greater-than-one flag based upon the position of the greater-than-one flag in the sequence of greater-than-one flags. Selection of the context may also be based upon the position of the last-non-zero coefficient in the coefficient group.
Abstract:
Methods of encoding and decoding for video data for encoding or decoding motion vector difference components for inter-coded video are described. The sign of one of the components is hidden within the parity of the sum of the magnitudes of the horizontal and vertical difference components. The sign of the other of the components is explicitly signaled in the bitstream. The hidden sign may be assigned to the larger in magnitude of the two components. In other cases, the hidden sign may always be assigned to the horizontal or vertical component. In another case, the hidden sign may always be assigned to one component, unless that component is zero, in which case the hidden sign is assigned to the other component. In another case, both components may have their signs hidden, in which case the sign hiding is based on their respective parity, rather than the parity of their sum.