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Intra Mode Coding using Candidate Mode Table in HEVC

HEVC에서 후보 모드 표를 이용한 화면내 모드 부호화

  • 최정아 (광주과학기술원 실감방송연구센터) ;
  • 호요성 (광주과학기술원 실감방송연구센터)
  • Received : 2011.08.12
  • Accepted : 2012.03.08
  • Published : 2012.03.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new intra mode coding method using the candidate mode table. In the conventional HEVC, if the predicted most probable mode (MPM) is not same with the current prediction mode, the current prediction mode is encoded using the fixed length code (FLC). However, since a large number of modes are used in HEVC, the codeword length of FLC gets longer. In this paper, we generate the candidate mode table from neighboring blocks and encode the obtained intra mode index using Golomb-Rice code instead of FLC, when the predicted MPM is not identical to the current mode. From the experiment, we verified that the proposed method reduces the BD-rate by 0.5% on average, compared to the HEVC intra mode coding method.

본 논문에서는 후보 모드표를 이용한 새로운 화면내 모드 부호화 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 HEVC는 예측한 최고확률모드(most probable mode, MPM)가 현재 블록의 실제 모드와 동일하지 않을 경우 고정길이 부호(fixed length code, FLC)를 이용해 실제 모드 정보를 이진화한다. 하지만 HEVC는 화면내 블록은 많은 수의 모드를 사용하기 때문에 FLC를 이용해 이진화를 하면 코드워드의 길이가 길어진다. 본 논문에서는 예측한 MPM이 실제 모드와 동일하지 않은 경우 인접한 블록을 통해 생성한 후보 모드표를 이용해 부호화할 인덱스를 얻고, 이를 FLC 대신 통계적 특성을 고려한 Golomb-Rice 코드를 이용해 이진화하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험을 통해 제안한 방법이 기존의 HEVC 화면내 모드 부호화 방법에 비해 평균 약 0.5%의 비트 수를 감소시키는 것을 확인했다.

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