Modified transform-based image coding method and device for same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11700377-B2
Application number	US-202117535095-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2021
Priority date	Jun 6, 2019
Publication date	Jul 11, 2023
Grant date	Jul 11, 2023

Abstract

An image decoding method according to the present document is characterized by including: a step for receiving a bitstream including residual information; a step for deriving transform coefficients for a target block on the basis of the residual information; a step for deriving corrected transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse non-separable transform of the transform coefficients; and a step for deriving residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the corrected transform coefficients, wherein the inverse non-separable transform is performed when the size of the target block is equal to or smaller than the size of a prescribed maximum transform application block.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving a bitstream including residual information;
deriving transform coefficients for a target block based on the residual information;
deriving modified transform coefficients based on an inverse non-separable transform for the transform coefficients;
deriving residual samples for the target block based on an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients; and
generating a reconstructed picture based on the residual samples for the target block,
wherein the target block is a coding block, and a transform block is partitioned from the coding block,
wherein the inverse non-separable transform is not performed when the size of the coding block is greater than the size of a predetermined maximum transform block,
wherein the target block includes a luma coding block and a chroma coding block, and
wherein based on the size of the luma coding block being equal to or smaller than the size of the maximum transform block and a color format being 4:2:0, the inverse non-separable transform is applied to the chroma coding block when the chroma coding block is less than or equal to ½ of the size of the maximum transform block.

2. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein information on the size of the maximum transform block is further received.

3. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein whether the inverse non-separable transform is performed is derived by comparing the larger of the width or height of the target block with the width or height of the maximum transform block.

4. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum transform block is 64×64.

5. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein when the size of the target block is larger than the size of the predetermined maximum transform block, Low Frequency Non-Separable Transform (LFNST) index indicating a predetermined transform kernel matrix used for the inverse non-separable transform is not derived.

6. An image encoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus, the method comprising:
deriving prediction samples for a target block;
deriving residual samples for the target block based on the prediction samples;
deriving transform coefficients for the target block based on a primary transform for the residual samples;
deriving modified transform coefficients from the transform coefficients based on a predetermined transform kernel matrix for a non-separable transform; and
encoding quantized residual information and a Low Frequency Non-Separable Transform (LFNST) index indicating the transform kernel matrix,
wherein the target block is a coding block, and a transform block is partitioned from the coding block,
wherein the non-separable transform is not performed when the size of the coding block is greater than the size of a predetermined maximum transform block,
wherein the target block includes a luma coding block and a chroma coding block, and
wherein based on the size of the luma coding block being equal to or smaller than the size of the maximum transform block and a color format being 4:2:0, the non-separable transform is applied to the chroma coding block when the chroma coding block is less than or equal to ½ of the size of the maximum transform block.

7. The image encoding method of claim 6 , wherein information on the size of the maximum transform block is further encoded.

8. The image encoding method of claim 6 , wherein whether the non-separable transform is performed is derived by comparing the larger of the width or height of the target block with the width or height of the maximum transform block.

9. The image encoding method of claim 6 , wherein the maximum transform block is 64×64.

10. The image encoding method of claim 6 , wherein based on the size of the target block being larger than the size of the predetermined maximum transform block, the LFNST index is not encoded.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable digital storage medium that stores instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
deriving prediction samples for a target block;
deriving residual samples for the target block based on the prediction samples;
deriving transform coefficients for the target block based on a primary transform for the residual samples;
deriving modified transform coefficients from the transform coefficients based on a predetermined transform kernel matrix for a non-separable transform; and
encoding quantized residual information and a Low Frequency Non-Separable Transform (LFNST) index indicating the transform kernel matrix to generate a bitstream,
wherein the target block is a coding block, and a transform block is partitioned from the coding block,
wherein the non-separable transform is not performed when the size of the coding block is greater than the size of a predetermined maximum transform applied block,
wherein the target block includes a luma coding block and a chroma coding block, and
wherein based on the size of the luma coding block being equal to or smaller than the size of the maximum transform block and a color format being 4:2:0, the non-separable transform is applied to the chroma coding block when the chroma coding block is less than or equal to ½ of the size of the maximum transform block.

12. A transmission method of data for an image, the method comprising:
obtaining a bitstream for the image;
wherein the bitstream is generated based on:
deriving prediction samples for a target block,
deriving residual samples for the target block based on the prediction samples, deriving transform coefficients for the target block based on a primary transform for the residual samples,
deriving modified transform coefficients from the transform coefficients based on a predetermined transform kernel matrix for a non-separable transform,
encoding quantized residual information and a Low Frequency Non-Separable Transform (LFNST) index indicating the transform kernel matrix to generate the bitstream, and
transmitting the data comprising the bitstream,
wherein the target block is a coding block, and a transform block is partitioned from the coding block,
wherein the non-separable transform is not performed when the size of the coding block is greater than the size of a predetermined maximum transform applied block,
wherein the target block includes a luma coding block and a chroma coding block, and
wherein based on the size of the luma coding block being equal to or smaller than the size of the maximum transform block and a color format being 4:2:0, the non-separable transform is applied to the chroma coding block when the chroma coding block is less than or equal to ½ of the size of the maximum transform block.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Koo Moonmo
• Lim Jaehyun
• Nam Junghak
• Kim Seunghwan

Classifications

• H04N19/18 Primary

  the unit being a set of transform coefficients · CPC title

• H04N19/176

  the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock · CPC title

• H04N19/132 Primary

  Sampling, masking or truncation of coding units, e.g. adaptive resampling, frame skipping, frame interpolation or high-frequency transform coefficient masking · CPC title

• H04N19/186

  the unit being a colour or a chrominance component · CPC title

• H04N19/137

  Motion inside a coding unit, e.g. average field, frame or block difference · CPC title