AI encoding apparatus and operation method of the same, and AI decoding apparatus and operation method of the same

    公开(公告)号:US11200702B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US17147954

    申请日:2021-01-13

    Abstract: Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus including a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to, when an image is input to a second DNN including a plurality of layers, obtain first result values based on an operation between the image and a first filter kernel and obtain second result values based on an operation between the image and a second filter kernel, from a first layer including the first and second filter kernels from among the plurality of layers, perform normalization by transforming the first result values into first values by using a first scale factor, and, perform normalization by transforming the second result values into second values by using a second scale factor, transform the first values and the second values into integer values included in a preset range.

    METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PERFORMING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENCODING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DECODING ON IMAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20210350586A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-11

    申请号:US17383533

    申请日:2021-07-23

    Abstract: Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to: obtain AI data related to AI down-scaling an original image to a first image; obtain image data corresponding to an encoding result on the first image; obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by performing a decoding on the image data; obtain deep neural network (DNN) setting information among a plurality of DNN setting information from the AI data; and obtain, by an up-scaling DNN, a third image by performing the AI up-scaling on the second image, the up-scaling DNN being configured with the obtained DNN setting information, wherein the plurality of DNN setting information comprises a parameter used in the up-scaling DNN, the parameter being obtained through joint training of the up-scaling DNN and a down-scaling DNN, and wherein the down-scaling DNN is used to obtain the first image from the original image.

    Image processing method and apparatus using neural network based deblocking filtering

    公开(公告)号:US12289475B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-29

    申请号:US17880799

    申请日:2022-08-04

    Abstract: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided to obtain input data for deblocking filtering based on deblocking filtering target pixels of at least one line perpendicular to a boundary line of blocks and encoding information about the deblocking filtering target pixels of at least one line, obtain a feature map of the input data by inputting the input data to a first neural network, obtain a deblocking filter coefficient by inputting the feature map to a second neural network, obtain a deblocking filter compensation value by inputting the feature map to a third neural network, obtain a deblocking filter strength by inputting the input data to a fourth neural network, obtain deblocking filtered pixels by performing deblocking filtering on the deblocking filtering target pixels of the at least one line using the deblocking filter coefficient, the deblocking filter compensation value, and the deblocking filter strength.

    Method and device for evaluating subjective quality of video

    公开(公告)号:US11616988B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-28

    申请号:US17286743

    申请日:2019-09-26

    Abstract: Proposed are a method and apparatus for evaluating the quality of an image, the method including obtaining blocks each having a predetermined size by splitting a target image for evaluating a quality and a reference image that is to be compared with the target image, determining sensitivity information and quality assessment information of each of the blocks by inputting the blocks to a video quality assessment network, and determining a final image quality assessment score of the target image by combining the pieces of quality assessment information of the blocks with each other, based on the pieces of sensitivity information of the blocks.

    Device and method for encoding and decoding image using AI

    公开(公告)号:US12170786B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-17

    申请号:US18133369

    申请日:2023-04-11

    Abstract: An image decoding method includes obtaining feature data of a current optical flow and feature data of a current residual image from a bitstream; obtaining the current optical flow and first weight data by applying the feature data of the current optical flow to an optical flow decoder; obtaining the current residual image by applying the feature data of the current residual image to a residual decoder; obtaining a preliminary prediction image from the previous reconstructed image, based on the current optical flow; obtaining a final prediction image by applying sample values of the first weight data to sample values of the preliminary prediction image; and obtaining a current reconstructed image corresponding to the current image by combining the final prediction image with the current residual image.

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