Abstract:
Method and apparatus for deriving a motion vector at a video decoder. A block-based motion vector may be produced at the video decoder by utilizing motion estimation among available pixels relative to blocks in one or more reference frames. The available pixels could be, for example, spatially neighboring blocks in the sequential scan coding order of a current frame, blocks in a previously decoded frame, or blocks in a downsampled frame in a lower pyramid when layered coding has been used.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and computer program products for the generation of multiple layers of scaled encoded video data compatible with the HEVC standard. Residue from prediction processing may be transformed into coefficients in the frequency domain. The coefficients may then be sampled to create a layer of encoded data. The coefficients may be sampled in different ways to create multiple respective layers. The layers may then be multiplexed and sent to a decoder. There, one or more of the layers may be chosen. The choice of certain layer(s) may be dependent on the desired attributes of the resulting video. A certain level of video quality, frame rate, resolution, and/or bit depth may be desired, for example. The coefficients in the chosen layers may then be assembled to create a version of the residue to be used in video decoding.
Abstract:
Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described below including operations for scalable real-time face beautification of video images.
Abstract:
Reconstructed picture quality for a video codec system may be improved by categorizing reconstructed pixels into different histogram bins with histogram segmentation and then applying different filters on different bins. Histogram segmentation may be performed by averagely dividing the histogram into M bins or adaptively dividing the histogram into N bins based on the histogram characteristics. Here M and N may be a predefined, fixed, non-negative integer value or an adaptively generated value at encoder side and may be sent to decoder through the coded bitstream.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for deriving a motion vector at a video decoder. A block-based motion vector may be produced at the video decoder by utilizing motion estimation among available pixels relative to blocks in one or more reference frames. The available pixels could be, for example, spatially neighboring blocks in the sequential scan coding order of a current frame, blocks in a previously decoded frame, or blocks in a downsampled frame in a lower pyramid when layered coding has been used.
Abstract:
Techniques for inter-layer residual prediction are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise an encoding component to determine whether a predicted motion for an enhancement layer block is consistent with a predicted motion for a collocated lower-layer block, determine whether to apply inter-layer residual prediction to the enhancement layer block based on whether the predicted motion for the enhancement layer block is consistent with the predicted motion for the collocated lower-layer block, and in response to a determination that inter-layer residual prediction is to be applied to the enhancement layer block, generate a predicted residual for the enhancement layer block based on a residual for the collocated lower-layer block and generate a second-order residual for the enhancement layer block by comparing a calculated residual to the predicted residual. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Abstract:
Systems, devices and methods are described including at an enhancement layer (EL) video encoder determining an intra mode for a current block of an EL frame based, at least in part, on one or more first intra mode candidates obtained from at least one of a lower level EL frame, or a base layer (BL) frame.
Abstract:
Reconstructed picture quality for a video codec system may be improved by categorizing reconstructed pixels into different histogram bins with histogram segmentation and then applying different filters on different bins. Histogram segmentation may be performed by averagely dividing the histogram into M bins or adaptively dividing the histogram into N bins based on the histogram characteristics. Here M and N may be a predefined, fixed, non-negative integer value or an adaptively generated value at encoder side and may be sent to decoder through the coded bitstream.
Abstract:
A video encoder may use an adaptive Wiener filter inside the core video encoding loop to improve coding efficiency. In one embodiment, the Wiener filter may be on the input to a motion estimation unit and, in another embodiment, it may be on the output of a motion compensation unit. The taps for the Wiener filter may be determined based on characteristics of at least a region of pixel intensities within a picture. Thus, the filtering may be adaptive in that it varies based on the type of video being processed.