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An Adaptive Filtering Method for Enhancement of Inter-color Plane Estimation in HEVC RExt RGB Images

HEVC RExt RGB 영상의 색평면 간 예측 향상을 위한 적응적 필터링 기법

  • Choi, Jangwon (Dept. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Choe, Yoonsik (Dept. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • 최장원 (연세대학교 전기전자공학과) ;
  • 최윤식 (연세대학교 전기전자공학과)
  • Received : 2013.06.25
  • Accepted : 2013.07.23
  • Published : 2013.07.30

Abstract

HEVC RExt(High Efficiency Video Coding Range Extension) set a goal to support RGB/YUV 4:2:2 4:4:4 color sampling and over 10 bit-depth images. Unlike the previous 4:2:0 color sampling images, RGB images have the high correlation in inter-color planes. Using this characteristic, some methods which are contributed in JCT-VC standardization meetings estimate the pixel values of inter-color plane. But when we use the estimation of inter-color plane in RGB images, high frequency components of RGB images are caused to reduce the coding efficiency because they usually have the low inter-color plane correlation. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an adaptive low pass filtering method in the inter-color plane estimation. Using this method, we can improve the estimation efficiency of inter-color plane in RGB images. The experimental results with HEVC RExt RGB test sequences show that the proposed method has 0.6% BD(Bjontegaard Distortion)-rate gain and some increased complexity compared to the previous inter-color plane estimation method.

HEVC RExt(High Efficiency Video Coding Range Extension)는 RGB/YUV 4:2:2 4:4:4 색 샘플링 영상과 10비트 심도 이상의 영상 지원을 목표로 한다. RGB 영상은 YUV 4:2:0 색 샘플링 영상과는 달리 색평면 간 높은 상관도를 갖고 있으며, 이를 이용하여 화소값을 예측하는 기법들이 JCT-VC 표준화 회의에서 기고되었다. 하지만 일반적으로 RGB 영상의 고주파수 성분은 색평면 간 낮은 상관도를 갖고 있으며, 이는 색평면 간 예측 시 부호화 효율 저하의 원인이 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 색평면 간 예측 시 고주파수 성분을 저역통과필터를 통해 적응적으로 제거하는 기법을 제안한다. HEVC RExt의 RGB 영상을 통한 실험 결과, 본 논문에서 제안하는 기법은 기존 색평면 간 예측 기법에 비해 큰 복잡도의 증가 없이 평균 0.6%의 BD(Bjontegaard Distortion)-율 이득을 얻을 수 있었다.

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