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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2019.24.3.463

Low-complexity Local Illuminance Compensation for Bi-prediction mode  

Choi, Han Sol (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Byeon, Joo Hyung (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Bang, Gun (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
Sim, Dong Gyu (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.24, no.3, 2019 , pp. 463-471 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a method for reducing the complexity of LIC (Local Illuminance Compensation) for bi-directional inter prediction. The LIC performs local illumination compensation using neighboring reconstruction samples of the current block and the reference block to improve the accuracy of the inter prediction. Since the weight and offset required for local illumination compensation are calculated at both sides of the encoder and decoder using the reconstructed samples, there is an advantage that the coding efficiency is improved without signaling any information. Since the weight and the offset are obtained in the encoding prediction step and the decoding step, encoder and decoder complexity are increased. This paper proposes two methods for low complexity LIC. The first method is a method of applying illumination compensation with offset only in bi-directional prediction, and the second is a method of applying LIC after weighted average step of reference block obtained by bidirectional prediction. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, BD-rate is compared with BMS-2.0.1 using B, C, and D classes of MPEG standard experimental image under RA (Random Access) condition. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the average of 0.29%, 0.23%, 0.04% for Y, U, and V in terms of BD-rate performance compared to BMS-2.0.1 and encoding/decoding time is almost same. Although the BD-rate was lost, the calculation complexity of the LIC was greatly reduced as the multiplication operation was removed and the addition operation was halved in the LIC parameter derivation process.
Keywords
VVC; Local Illumination Compensation; Complexity; Simplification;
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