High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC

Versatile video coding (VVC/H.266) is the newest video compression standard, which is developed by the Joint Video Experts Team. Compared with previous encoding schemes, VVC achieves higher compression efficiency by introducing a new partition structure and additional intra prediction modes but resu...

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Main Authors: Chi-Ting Ni, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Pei-Yin Chen, Yu-Ting Chu
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837933/
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Shih-Hsiang Lin
Pei-Yin Chen
Yu-Ting Chu
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Shih-Hsiang Lin
Pei-Yin Chen
Yu-Ting Chu
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description Versatile video coding (VVC/H.266) is the newest video compression standard, which is developed by the Joint Video Experts Team. Compared with previous encoding schemes, VVC achieves higher compression efficiency by introducing a new partition structure and additional intra prediction modes but results in high computational complexity. To efficiently solve this problem of redundant processing in quad-tree with nested multi-type tree structures and intra mode prediction, we propose a texture analysis–based ternary tree (TT) and binary tree (BT) partition strategy, and a gradient-based intra mode decision method to accelerate TT and BT partition and intra mode prediction, separately. The texture complexity and prediction direction of coding unit (CU) is calculated by texture detection method. A texture analysis–based TT and BT partition strategy is established by using the regression method based on analyzing the texture complexity of the CU. Then, a texture analysis–based TT and BT partition strategy is applied to reduce the redundant partition for each CU. By using the prediction direction of CU, a gradient-based intra mode decision method is established for skipping the impossible modes for each CU. Experimental results revealed that the proposed method could save 49.49% in encoding time and increase the Bjontegaard delta bit rate (BDBR) by only 0.56%. It confirms that the proposed method achieved high efficiency and a good balance between the BDBR and time saving.
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spelling doaj.art-c23fee0808534f73acaba27405f5ae4b2022-12-22T03:40:17ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110777597777110.1109/ACCESS.2022.31934019837933High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVCChi-Ting Ni0Shih-Hsiang Lin1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4445-4966Pei-Yin Chen2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-3164Yu-Ting Chu3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8246-8461Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Digital IC Design Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Digital IC Design Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Digital IC Design Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Digital IC Design Laboratory, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TaiwanVersatile video coding (VVC/H.266) is the newest video compression standard, which is developed by the Joint Video Experts Team. Compared with previous encoding schemes, VVC achieves higher compression efficiency by introducing a new partition structure and additional intra prediction modes but results in high computational complexity. To efficiently solve this problem of redundant processing in quad-tree with nested multi-type tree structures and intra mode prediction, we propose a texture analysis–based ternary tree (TT) and binary tree (BT) partition strategy, and a gradient-based intra mode decision method to accelerate TT and BT partition and intra mode prediction, separately. The texture complexity and prediction direction of coding unit (CU) is calculated by texture detection method. A texture analysis–based TT and BT partition strategy is established by using the regression method based on analyzing the texture complexity of the CU. Then, a texture analysis–based TT and BT partition strategy is applied to reduce the redundant partition for each CU. By using the prediction direction of CU, a gradient-based intra mode decision method is established for skipping the impossible modes for each CU. Experimental results revealed that the proposed method could save 49.49% in encoding time and increase the Bjontegaard delta bit rate (BDBR) by only 0.56%. It confirms that the proposed method achieved high efficiency and a good balance between the BDBR and time saving.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837933/H.266/VVCfast CU partitionintra mode decisiongradient-basedregression
spellingShingle Chi-Ting Ni
Shih-Hsiang Lin
Pei-Yin Chen
Yu-Ting Chu
High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC
IEEE Access
H.266/VVC
fast CU partition
intra mode decision
gradient-based
regression
title High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC
title_full High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC
title_fullStr High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC
title_full_unstemmed High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC
title_short High Efficiency Intra CU Partition and Mode Decision Method for VVC
title_sort high efficiency intra cu partition and mode decision method for vvc
topic H.266/VVC
fast CU partition
intra mode decision
gradient-based
regression
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837933/
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