Smoothed reference inter-layer texture prediction for bit depth scalable video coding

Zhan Ma; Jiancong Luo; Peng Yin; Cristina Gomila; Yao Wang

doi:10.1117/12.840280

18 January 2010 Smoothed reference inter-layer texture prediction for bit depth scalable video coding

Zhan Ma, Jiancong Luo, Peng Yin, Cristina Gomila, Yao Wang

Proceedings Volume 7543, Visual Information Processing and Communication; 75430P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.840280
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We present a smoothed reference inter-layer texture prediction mode for bit depth scalability based on the Scalable Video Coding extension of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard. In our approach, the base layer encodes an 8-bit signal that can be decoded by any existing H.264/MPEG-4 AVC decoder and the enhancement layer encodes a higher bit depth signal (e.g. 10/12-bit) which requires a bit depth scalable decoder. The approach presented uses base layer motion vectors to conduct motion compensation upon enhancement layer reference frames. Then, the motion compensated block is tone mapped and summed with the co-located base layer residue block prior to being inverse tone mapped to obtain a smoothed reference predictor. In addition to the original inter-/intra-layer prediction modes, the smoothed reference prediction mode enables inter-layer texture prediction for blocks with inter-coded co-located block. The proposed method is designed to improve the coding efficiency for sequences with non-linear tone mapping, in which case we have gains up to 0.4dB over the CGS-based BDS framework.

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Zhan Ma, Jiancong Luo, Peng Yin, Cristina Gomila, and Yao Wang "Smoothed reference inter-layer texture prediction for bit depth scalable video coding", Proc. SPIE 7543, Visual Information Processing and Communication, 75430P (18 January 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.840280

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