Bidirectional intra prediction method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12244853-B2
Application number	US-202117529757-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2021
Priority date	Nov 28, 2017
Publication date	Mar 4, 2025
Grant date	Mar 4, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. Encoding and decoding of a target block are performed using intra-prediction. The intra-prediction is intra-prediction that uses bidirectional intra-prediction and a remaining mode. In bidirectional intra-prediction, a prediction value for a target pixel in the target block is determined based on reference pixels in two directions of bidirectional intra-prediction. In intra-prediction using a remaining mode, the remaining mode indicates remaining intra-prediction modes other than MPMs present in an MPM list.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A decoding method, comprising:
determining a prediction mode for a target block; and
performing a prediction for the target block using a first reference pixel and a second reference pixel determined by the prediction mode,
wherein the first reference pixel and the second reference pixel are determined by a direction of the prediction mode,
wherein each of the first reference pixel and the second reference pixel is not adjacent to the target block,
wherein a X coordinate of the first reference pixel and a X coordinate of the second reference pixel are different from each other, and
wherein a Y coordinate of the first reference pixel and a Y coordinate of the second reference pixel are different from each other.

2. The decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the prediction is performed using a first weight value for a first reference value determined by the first reference pixel and a second weight value for a second reference value determined by the second reference pixel.

3. The decoding method of claim 2 , wherein the first weight value is determined based on a distance between a target pixel of the target block and the first reference pixel, and
the second weight value is determined based on a distance between the target pixel and the second reference pixel.

4. The decoding method of claim 3 , wherein the first weight value and the second weight value are determined based on the direction.

5. The decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the direction is a diagonal direction.

6. The decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the prediction is performed by a plurality of different prediction methods.

7. The decoding method of claim 1 , wherein it is determined whether at least one first prediction mode is used as intra prediction mode for the target block or not,
wherein a list comprising one or more second prediction modes is used for the prediction for the target block in a case that it is determined that the at least one first prediction mode is not used for the target block, and
wherein the at least one first prediction mode is not comprised in the list.

8. The decoding method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more second prediction modes in the list are derived based on a prediction mode of a neighbor block of the target block.

9. The decoding method of claim 8 , wherein it is determined whether to perform the prediction using a list including one or more Most Probable Modes (MPMs),
wherein the prediction is performed using a selected remaining mode which a remaining mode indicator indicates among remaining modes in a case that the prediction is not performed using the list,
wherein the remaining modes do not include the MPMs, and
wherein a value of the remaining mode indicator is binarized using a truncated binary coding method.

10. The decoding method of claim 9 , wherein the number of the remaining modes are 61,
wherein the remaining mode indicator is decoded from one of a plurality of truncated binaries,
wherein the plurality of truncated binaries are used to indicate the 61 remaining modes, respectively, and
wherein the plurality of truncated binaries for the 61 remaining modes are “00000”, “00001”, “00010”, “000110”, “000111”, “001000”, “001001”, “001010”, “001011”, “001100”, “001101”, “001110”, “001111”, “010000”, “010001”, “010010”, “010011”, “010100”, “010101”, “010110”, “010111”, “011000”, “011001”, “011010”, “011011”, “011100”, “011101”, “011110”, “011111”, “100000”, “100001”, “100010”, “100011”, “100100”, “100101”, “100110”, “100111”, “101000”, “101001”, “101010”, “101011”, “101100”, “101101”, “101110”, “101111”, “110000”, “110001”, “110010”, “110011”, “110100”, “110101”, “110110”, “110111”, “111000”, “111001”, “111010”, “111011”, “111100”, “111101”, “111110” and “111111”.

11. An encoding method, comprising:
determining a prediction mode for a target block; and
performing a prediction for the target block using a first reference pixel and a second reference pixel determined by the prediction mode,
wherein the first reference pixel and the second reference pixel are determined by a direction of the prediction mode,
wherein each of the first reference pixel and the second reference pixel is not adjacent to the target block,
wherein a X coordinate of the first reference pixel and a X coordinate of the second reference pixel are different from each other, and
wherein a Y coordinate of the first reference pixel and a Y coordinate of the second reference pixel are different from each other.

12. The encoding method of claim 11 , wherein the prediction is performed using a first weight value for a first reference value determined by the first reference pixel and a second weight value for a second reference value determined by the second reference pixel,
wherein the first weight value is determined based on a distance between a target pixel of the target block and the first reference pixel, and
wherein the second weight value is determined based on a distance between the target pixel and the second reference pixel.

13. The encoding method of claim 11 , wherein the prediction is performed by a plurality of different prediction methods.

14. The encoding method of claim 11 , wherein it is determined whether the prediction mode for the target block is at least one first prediction mode or not,
wherein the prediction mode for the target block is one prediction mode in a list comprising one or more second prediction modes in a case that the prediction mode is not at least one first prediction mode, and
wherein the at least one first prediction mode is not comprised in the list.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a bitstream generated by the encoding method of claim 11 .

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a bitstream, the bitstream comprising:
prediction information for a target block,
wherein a prediction mode for the target block is determined using the prediction information,
wherein prediction for the target block is performed using a first reference pixel and a second reference pixel determined by the prediction mode,
wherein the first reference pixel and the second reference pixel are determined by a direction of the prediction mode,
wherein each of the first reference pixel and the second reference pixel is not adjacent to the target block,
wherein a X coordinate of the first reference pixel and a X coordinate of the second reference pixel are different from each other, and
wherein a Y coordinate of the first reference pixel and a Y coordinate of the second reference pixel are different from each other.

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst
• Univ Nat Hanbat Ind Acad Coop Found

Inventors

• KO Hyunsuk
• Kang Jung-Won
• Lim Sung-Chang
• Lee Jin-Ho
• Lee Ha-Hyun
• Jun Dong-San
• Choi Hae-Chul
• Kim Hui-Yong
• Back A-Ram

Classifications

• H04N19/184

  the unit being bits, e.g. of the compressed video stream · CPC title

• H04N19/182

  the unit being a pixel · CPC title

• H04N19/176

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

• H04N19/159

  Prediction type, e.g. intra-frame, inter-frame or bidirectional frame prediction · CPC title

• H04N19/105 Primary

  Selection of the reference unit for prediction within a chosen coding or prediction mode, e.g. adaptive choice of position and number of pixels used for prediction · CPC title