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Efficient Motion Information Representation in Splitting Region of HEVC

HEVC의 분할 영역에서 효율적인 움직임 정보 표현

  • 이동식 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 김영모 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
  • Received : 2011.11.15
  • Accepted : 2012.01.25
  • Published : 2012.04.30

Abstract

This paper proposes 'Coding Unit Tree' based on quadtree efficiently with motion vector to represent splitting information of a Coding Unit (CU) in HEVC. The new international video coding, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), adopts various techniques and new unit concept: CU, Prediction Unit (PU), and Transform Unit (TU). The basic coding unit, CU is larger than macroblock of H.264/AVC and it splits to process image-based quadtree with a hierarchical structure. However, in case that there are complex motions in CU, the more signaling bits with motion information need to be transmitted. This structure provides a flexibility and a base for a optimization, but there are overhead about splitting information. This paper analyzes those signals and proposes a new algorithm which removes those redundancy. The proposed algorithm utilizes a type code, a dominant value, and residue values at a node in quadtree to remove the addition bits. Type code represents a structure of an image tree and the two values represent a node value. The results show that the proposed algorithm gains 13.6% bit-rate reduction over the HM-1.0.

본 논문은 움직임 벡터와 함께 Coding Unit (CU)의 분할 정보를 표현하기 위해 쿼드트리 기반의 Coding Unit Tree (CUT)를 제안한다. 새로운 동영상 국제 표준안인 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)는 높은 압축 효율을 위해 다양한 새로운 기술들을 채택하였다. 그리고 CU, prediction Unit (PU), 와 Transform Unit (TU)라는 분할 개념을 도입하였다. 그중 기본 부호화 단위인 CU는 H.264/AVC의 매크로 블록보다 다양한 크기를 제공하며 계층적인 구조를 가지고 있으며 쿼드트리 기반의 영상을 분할하고 처리한다. 이러한 구조는 유연성과 최적화를 이룰 수 있는 기반을 제공하고 있으나, 분할 정보에 대한 오버헤더가 발생한다. 복잡한 움직임 정보가 발생하면, 해당하는 정보를 전송하기 위해 다양한 신호가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 다양한 신호들을 분석하고, 중복되는 정보를 제거하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘 은 기본 블록인 $2{\times}2$ 블록을 기준으로 계층적인 구조를 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 쿼드트리 기반의 타입 코드로 영상을 구조를 나타내고, 대표 값과 잔여 값으로 각 노드의 값을 표현한다. 결과에서 제안하는 알고리즘이 HM1.0보다 13.6% 압축 향상을 보여준다.

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