Abstract

This article describes the main video coding technologies included in a joint proposal submitted by Qualcomm and Technicolor, in response to a Call for Proposals (CfP) issued by ITU-T SG16 WP3 Q.6 (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) in Oct. 2017. The proposal contains the majority of the tools that have been adopted into the Joint Exploration Model (JEM), developed in the exploratory phase that preceded the CfP. A flexible multi-tree type (MTT) block-partitioning scheme is proposed to extend the quadtree and binary tree (QTBT) based partitioning in JEM by including triple tree (TT) and asymmetric binary tree (ABT) partitions. In addition, several JEM tools in intra and inter prediction, transforms and arithmetic coding are modified, and new tools such as sign prediction and motion compensated padding are proposed. Objective standard dynamic range (SDR) gains of 43.1% and 15.5% in terms of average luma BD-rate improvement have been achieved for the CfP constraint set 1 (random-access configuration) relative to HEVC/H.265 (HM) and JEM anchors, respectively. For the CfP constraint set 2 (low-delay configuration), the average luma BD-rate improvements are 33.7% relative to the HM anchor and 12.7% relative to the JEM anchor. The proposed codec scored highly in both subjective evaluations and objective metrics and was among the best-performing CfP proposals.

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