Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video with respect to position of integer pixel

• US 10,469,866 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2014
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Min-woo, Lee, Jin-young, Yoon, Jae-won, Choi, Byeong-doo, Wey, Ho-cheon, Cho, Yong-jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Czekaj, Dave
• Assistant Examiner(s): Abimbola, Kehinde
• Application Number:
  US14/782,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20160044333A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,038 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/187 the unit being a scalable video layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/188 the unit being a video data packet, e.g. a network abstraction layer [NAL] unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/30 using hierarchical techniques, e.g. scalability H04N19/63 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/44 Decoders specially adapted therefor, e.g. video decoders which are asymmetric with respect to the encoder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/52 by predictive encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/521 for estimating the reliability of the determined motion vectors or motion vector field, e.g. for smoothing the motion vector field or for correcting motion vectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/597 specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding

Abstract

Disclosed is a video decoding method including: obtaining a disparity vector having components in sub-pixel unit for interlayer prediction between images belonging to a current layer and a reference layer; determining a position of an integer pixel of the reference layer corresponding to a position indicated by the disparity vector obtained from the position of a current pixel of the current layer; and decoding the image of the current layer by using prediction information on a candidate area of the reference layer corresponding to the determined position of the integer pixel.

Claims

1. A video decoding method comprising:

obtaining a disparity vector having components in sub-pixel unit for interlayer prediction between images belonging to a reference layer of a first view and a current layer of a second view;

determining a position of an integer pixel of a depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to a position of one of an integer pixel and a sub-pixel, wherein the position is indicated by the disparity vector having components in the sub-pixel unit from a current pixel of a color image included in the current layer; and

decoding the color image of the current layer by using depth-related information related to a value in the depth map image on a candidate area of the depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to the determined position of the integer pixel of the depth map image included in the reference layer.

2. The video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the determining the position of the integer pixel comprises:

determining an integer disparity vector corresponding to the obtained disparity vector; and

determining a position of an integer pixel of the depth map image included in the reference layer indicated by the obtained integer disparity vector from the current pixel of the current layer.

3. The video decoding method of claim 2, wherein the determining the integer disparity vector comprises determining the integer disparity vector through a rounding operation on sub-pixel components of x and y components of the obtained disparity vector.

4. The video decoding method of claim 2, wherein the determining the integer disparity vector comprises:

determining a disparity vector value from the obtained disparity vector;

adding a predetermined value to the obtained disparity vector value; and

shifting the predetermined value-added value to the right by predetermined bits in a bit-shift operation.

5. The video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the current pixel is a pixel at a predetermined position of a current block.

6. The video decoding method of claim 5, wherein the pixel at the predetermined position is a pixel at a predetermined position among an upper left end, a lower left, an upper right, a lower right, and a center of the current block.

7. The video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the candidate area of the depth map image included in the reference layer is a coding unit or a prediction unit in the depth map image.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a computer-readable program for implementing the method of claim 1.

8. A video encoding method comprising:

determining a disparity vector having components in sub-pixel unit for interlayer prediction between images belonging to a reference layer of a first view and a current layer of a second view;

determining a position of an integer pixel of a depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to a position of one of an integer pixel and a sub-pixel, wherein the position is indicated by the determined disparity vector having components in the sub-pixel unit from the position of a current pixel of a color image included in the current layer; and

encoding the color image of the current layer by using depth-related information related to a value in the depth map image on a candidate area of the depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to the determined position of the integer pixel of the depth map image included in the reference layer.

9. A video decoding apparatus comprising:

a disparity vector obtainer configured to obtain a disparity vector having components in sub-pixel unit for interlayer prediction between images belonging to a reference layer of a first view and a current layer of a second view;

an integer pixel position determiner configured to determine a position of an integer pixel of a depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to a position of one of an integer pixel and a sub-pixel, wherein the position is indicated by the disparity vector having components in the sub-pixel unit obtained from a position of a current pixel of a color image included in the current layer; and

a decoder configured to decode the color image of the current layer by using depth-related information related to a value in the depth map image on a candidate area of the depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to the determined position of the integer pixel of the depth image included in the reference layer.

10. A video encoding apparatus comprising:

a disparity vector determiner configured to determine a disparity vector having components in sub-pixel unit for interlayer prediction between images belonging to a reference layer of a first view and a current layer of a second view;

an integer pixel position determiner configured to determine a position of an integer pixel of a depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to a position of one of an integer pixel and a sub-pixel, wherein the position is indicated by the determined disparity vector having components in the sub-pixel unit from a position of a current pixel of a color image included in the current layer; and

an encoder configured to encode the color image of the current layer by using depth-related information related to a value in the depth map image on a candidate area of the depth map image included in the reference layer corresponding to the determined position of the integer pixel of the depth image included in the reference layer.