Fast CU partitioning algorithm for H. 266/VVC intra-frame coding

T Fu, H Zhang, F Mu, H Chen - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) has established the latest video coding
standard, Versatile Video Coding (H. 266/VVC). The H. 266/VVC adopts the quadtree with …

Non-local attention optimized deep image compression

H Liu, T Chen, P Guo, Q Shen, X Cao, Y Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a novel Non-Local Attention Optimized Deep Image Compression
(NLAIC) framework, which is built on top of the popular variational auto-encoder (VAE) …

Fast partitioning decision strategies for the upcoming versatile video coding (VVC) standard

A Wieckowski, J Ma, H Schwarz… - … on Image Processing …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the key technologies in the upcoming Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard is the
flexible partitioning. Compared to HEVC, partitioning alone accounts for about 8.5% bitrate …

Look-ahead prediction based coding unit size pruning for VVC intra coding

M Lei, F Luo, X Zhang, S Wang… - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the emerging video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), a quadtree with
nested multi-type tree (MTT) using binary and ternary tree structure was proposed. MTT …

Progressive spatial recurrent neural network for intra prediction

Y Hu, W Yang, M Li, J Liu - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intra prediction is an important component of modern video codecs, which is able to
efficiently squeeze out the spatial redundancy in video frames. With preceding pixels as the …

Learned point cloud geometry compression

J Wang, H Zhu, Z Ma, T Chen, H Liu, Q Shen - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a novel end-to-end Learned Point Cloud Geometry Compression (aka,
Learned-PCGC) framework, to efficiently compress the point cloud geometry (PCG) using …

Inter-block dependency-based CTU level rate control for HEVC

H Guo, C Zhu, M Xu, S Li - IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although high efficiency video coding (HEVC) has achieved high coding performance, it has
been shown that dependent rate-distortion optimization (RDO) can still further improve the …

Video integrity verification and GOP size estimation via generalized variation of prediction footprint

D Vázquez-Padín, M Fontani, D Shullani… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Variation of Prediction Footprint (VPF), formerly used in video forensics for double
compression detection and GOP size estimation, is comprehensively investigated to improve …

An optimized rate control for low-delay H. 265/HEVC

Z Chen, X Pan - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an optimized coding tree unit (CTU)-level rate control approach is proposed for
low-delay high-efficiency video coding (H. 265/HEVC). Unlike the traditional explicitly …

A comprehensive video codec comparison

T Laude, YG Adhisantoso, J Voges… - … Transactions on Signal …, 2019 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we compare the video codecs AV1 (version 1.0. 0-2242 from August 2019),
HEVC (HM and x265), AVC (x264), the exploration software JEM which is based on HEVC …