Cross-Block Difference Guided Fast CU Partition for VVC Intra Coding

2022/01/14 by Liu, Hewei, Zhu, Shuyuan, Xiong, Ruiqin +2
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Multimedia (cs.MM) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.05677

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new fast CU partition algorithm for VVC intra coding based on cross-block difference. This difference is measured by the gradient and the content of sub-blocks obtained from partition and is employed to guide the skipping of unnecessary horizontal and vertical partition modes. With this guidance, a fast determination of block partitions is accordingly achieved. Compared with VVC, our proposed method can save 41.64% (on average) encoding time with only 0.97% (on average) increase of BD-rate.

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