Depth encoding method and apparatus, decoding method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016309173-A1
Application number	US-201615193329-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 27, 2016
Priority date	Dec 26, 2013
Publication date	Oct 20, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided is a video decoding method including acquiring, from a bitstream, segment-wise direct component (DC) coding (SDC) mode information indicating whether an SDC mode is allowed in a depth image; determining prediction mode information and partition mode information applied to a coding unit of the depth image; acquiring an SDC flag indicating whether an SDC mode is applied to the coding unit from the bitstream according to the SDC mode information, the prediction mode information, and the partition mode information; acquiring a residual DC value corresponding to a prediction unit of the coding unit from the bitstream when the SDC flag indicates that the SDC mode is applied to the coding unit; and reconstructing a current block of the prediction unit by using the residual DC value and prediction values of the prediction unit, wherein the residual DC value is acquired from a residual block of the prediction unit.

First claim

1 . A video decoding method comprising:
acquiring, from a bitstream, segment-wise direct component (DC) coding (SDC) mode information indicating whether an SDC mode is allowed in a depth image; determining prediction mode information and partition mode information applied to a coding unit of the depth image; acquiring an SDC flag indicating whether an SDC mode is applied to the coding unit from the bitstream according to the SDC mode information, the prediction mode information, and the partition mode information; acquiring a residual DC value corresponding to a prediction unit of the coding unit from the bitstream when the SDC flag indicates that the SDC mode is applied to the coding unit; and reconstructing a current block of the prediction unit by using the residual DC value and prediction values of the prediction unit, wherein the residual DC value is acquired from a residual block of the prediction unit.

2 . The video decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the SDC mode information comprises:
inter SDC mode information indicating whether the SDC mode is allowed when the coding unit is predicted by an inter mode; and intra SDC mode information indicating whether the SDC mode is allowed when the coding unit is predicted by an intra mode.

3 . The video decoding method of claim 2 , wherein the acquiring of the SDC flag comprises:
acquiring the SDC flag when a prediction mode is the inter mode, in a case where the inter SDC mode information indicates that the SDC mode is allowed with respect to the depth image, and a partition mode is a 2N×2N mode, and acquiring the SDC flag when a prediction mode is the intra mode, in a case where the intra SDC mode information indicates that the SDC mode is allowed with respect to the depth image, and a partition mode is a 2N×2N mode.

4 . The video decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the acquiring of the residual DC value comprises: acquiring an absolute value of the residual DC value and, when the absolute value is not 0, acquiring a sign of the residual DC value.

5 . The video decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the residual DC value is determined as an average value of one or more residual pixel values of the residual block.

6 . The video decoding method of claim 5 , wherein the residual DC value is determined as an average value of a top left residual pixel value, a top right residual pixel value, a bottom left residual pixel value, and a bottom right residual pixel value of the residual block.

7 . The video decoding method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more residual pixel values are determined according to a size of at least one of the coding unit and the prediction unit.

8 . The video decoding method of claim 5 , wherein the residual DC value is determined from among a plurality of residual DC value candidates by adding multiple offset values to the average value of the one or more residual sample values based on rate-distortion optimization.

9 . A video decoding apparatus comprising:
an SDC mode information acquirer for acquiring, from a bitstream, SDC mode information indicating whether an SDC mode is allowed in a depth image; a coding unit information determiner for determining prediction mode information and partition mode information applied to a coding unit of the depth image; an SDC flag acquirer for acquiring an SDC flag indicating whether an SDC mode is applied to the coding unit from the bitstream according to the SDC mode information and coding information; a residual DC value acquirer for acquiring a residual DC value corresponding to a prediction unit of the coding unit from the bitstream when the SDC flag indicates that the SDC mode is applied to the coding unit; and a decoder for reconstructing a current block of the prediction unit by using the residual DC value and prediction values of the prediction unit, wherein the residual DC value is acquired from a residual block of the prediction unit.

10 . The video decoding apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the SDC mode information acquirer acquires inter SDC mode information indicating whether the SDC mode is allowed when the coding unit is predicted by an inter mode and acquires intra SDC mode information indicating whether the SDC mode is allowed when the coding unit is predicted by an intra mode.

11 . The video decoding apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the SDC flag acquirer acquires the SDC flag when a prediction mode is the inter mode, in a case where the inter SDC mode information indicates that the SDC mode is allowed with respect to the depth image, and a partition mode is a 2N×2N mode, and acquires the SDC flag when a prediction mode is the intra mode, in a case where the intra SDC mode information indicates that the SDC mode is allowed with respect to the depth image, and a partition mode is a 2N×2N mode.

12 . A video encoding method comprising:
predicting a prediction unit of a coding unit of a depth image and generating a residual block corresponding to the prediction unit; determining SDC mode information indicating whether an SDC mode is allowed with respect to the depth image; determining a residual DC value from the residual block when the SDC mode is applied to the coding unit according to a prediction mode and a partition mode used to generate the residual block; determining prediction mode information and partition mode information with respect to the coding unit; determining an SDC flag indicating whether the SDC mode is applied to the coding unit; and transmitting a bitstream comprising the SDC mode information, the SDC flag, the prediction mode information, the partition mode information, and the residual DC value.

13 . A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program for executing the video decoding method of claim 1 .

14 . A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program for executing the video encoding method of claim 12 .

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Jin-Young
• Park Min-Woo
• Cho Yong-Jin
• Choi Byeong-Doo

Classifications

• H04N19/33 Primary

  in the spatial domain · CPC title

• H04N19/103 Primary

  Selection of coding mode or of prediction mode · CPC title

• H04N19/18

  the unit being a set of transform coefficients · CPC title

• H04N19/593

  involving spatial prediction techniques · CPC title

• H04N19/157

  Assigned coding mode, i.e. the coding mode being predefined or preselected to be further used for selection of another element or parameter · CPC title