Method and apparatus for selectively encoding/decoding syntax elements, and apparatus and method for image encoding/decoding using same

• US 9,070,179 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2011
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sunyeon, Jeon, Byeungwoo, Yang, Jungyoup, Won, Kwanghyun, Moon, Joohee, Lee, Yunglyul, Kim, Haekwang
• Primary Examiner(s): BEKELE, MEKONEN T
• Application Number:
  US13/190,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20110317930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240.16, 375/240.24, 375/E07.104, 375/E07.115, 375/E07.123, 375/204.29, 348/699, 348/700, 348/402, 348/416, 348/413, 348/719, 382/233, 382/236, 382/239
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/00 Image coding bandwidth or redundancy reduction for static pictures H04N1/41; coding or decoding of static colour picture signals H04N1/64; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/103 Selection of coding mode or of prediction mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/107 between spatial and temporal predictive coding, e.g. picture refresh
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/124 Quantisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/139 Analysis of motion vectors, e.g. their magnitude, direction, variance or reliability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/167 Position within a video image, e.g. region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/182 the unit being a pixel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/51 Motion estimation or motion compensation
• 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

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for motion vector encoding/decoding, and to an apparatus and a method for image encoding/decoding using same are provided. The apparatus includes a selector of optimal predicted motion vector PMV from candidate motion vector set of current block; a determiner of motion vector prediction mode of current block with selected motion vector prediction mode from multiple motion vector prediction modes by decision criterion prearranged with motion vector decoding apparatus; and an encoder for determining, by determined motion vector prediction mode, optimal PMV or default predicted motion vector into PMV for current motion vector, encoding differential vector between the current block and PMV, and selectively encoding/outputting determined motion vector prediction mode as encoded motion vector prediction mode by the determined motion vector prediction mode. Bit quantity in encoding a motion vector is reduced improving encoding efficiency and preventing decoder crash even at encoding error, improving decoder.

Claims

1. A video decoding method using an inter-prediction, the method comprising:

determining a motion vector of a current block to be decoded in a current picture;

predicting pixels in the current block using the motion vector of the current block;

extracting quantized transform coefficients by decoding a bitstream;

reconstructing residual signals by inversely quantizing and then inversely transforming the quantized transform coefficients; and

adding the predicted pixels and the reconstructed residual signals which correspond to the predicted pixels,

wherein the determination of the motion vector of the current block comprises;

obtaining a flag by decoding the bitstream, the flag indicating one among a plurality of modes for determining the motion vector of the current block; and

when the flag indicates a first mode among the plurality of modes, performing a process comprising;

deriving a set of candidate motion vectors from motion vectors of a plurality of neighboring blocks of the current block,

selecting a candidate motion vector from the set of candidate motion vectors,

determining the selected candidate motion vector to be a predicted motion vector of the current block, and

reconstructing the motion vector of the current block by adding the predicted motion vector of the current block to a differential vector decoded from the bitstream.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of neighboring blocks include at least one block spatially adjacent to the current block in the current picture and at least one block in a reference picture other than the current picture, wherein a position of the at least one block in the reference picture is derived based on a position of the current block in the current picture.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the position of the at least one block in the reference picture is identical to the position of the current block in the current picture.

4. The method of claim 1, the deriving the set of candidate motion vectors further comprising:

when two elements included in the set have the same value, excluding one of the two elements from the set.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the candidate motion vector is selected from the set of candidate motion vectors based on information included in the bitstream.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the flag indicates a second mode among the plurality of modes, setting the current motion vector of the current block to one among the motion vectors of the plurality of neighboring blocks of the current block.