Improved video compression efficiency through flexible unit representation and corresponding extension of coding tools

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1709-1720

  Han, Woo Jin ^a   Min, Junghye ^a   Kim, Il Koo ^a   Alshina, Elena ^a   Alshin, Alexander ^a   Lee, Tammy ^a   Chen, Jianle ^a   Seregin, Vadim ^a   Lee, Sunil ^a   Hong, Yoon Mi ^a   Cheon, Min Su ^a   Shlyakhov, Nikolay ^a   McCann, Ken ^b   Davies, Thomas ^c   Park, Jeong Hoon ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^b ZetaCast   (United Kingdom)

^c BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexible unit representation; HEVC; video coding

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; BIT-RATE REDUCTION; BLOCK STRUCTURES; CLOSED-LOOP; CODING TOOLS; FLEXIBLE UNITS; H.264/AVC; HEVC; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTERPOLATION FILTERS; INTRAPREDICTION; LEAKY PREDICTION; MACRO BLOCK; MOTION ACCURACY; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OPEN LOOPS; P-SEQUENCES; QUAD TREES; REGION-SPLITTING; TRANSFORM SIZE; VARIABLE BLOCK SIZE; VIDEO CODECS; VIDEO CODING; VIDEO COMPRESSION; VIDEO COMPRESSION EFFICIENCY;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; MOTION COMPENSATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; STANDARDIZATION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 79551577822     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2010.2092612     Document Type: Article

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