Method for predicting disparity vector for interlayer video decoding and encoding apparatus and method

• US 9,894,377 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2014
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• 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): Kim, Hee-Yong
• Application Number:
  US14/782,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20160073127A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,408 Days
• Field of Search: 37524016
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/187 the unit being a scalable video layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/33 in the spatial domain
• 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 19/513 Processing of motion vectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/52 by predictive encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/527 Global motion vector estimation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/597 specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding

Abstract

An interlayer video decoding method and apparatus and an interlayer video encoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes: reconstructing, based on encoding information obtained from a bitstream, a first layer image and a first layer depth map; determining whether a disparity vector is predictable using peripheral blocks of a second layer current block; and when the disparity vector is not predictable using the peripheral blocks, determining a disparity vector of the second layer current block using a default disparity vector and the reconstructed first layer depth map.

Claims

1. An interlayer video decoding method comprising:

reconstructing, based on encoding information obtained from a bitstream, a first layer image and a first layer depth map;

determining whether a disparity vector is predictable using peripheral blocks of a second layer current block; and

when the disparity vector is not predictable using the peripheral blocks, determining a disparity vector of the second layer current block using a default disparity vector and the reconstructed first layer depth map;

wherein the determining of the disparity vector comprises;

determining a reference block of the first layer depth map, the reference block being indicated by the default disparity vector;

obtaining corner depth values of the reference block of the first layer depth map; and

determining the disparity vector of the second layer current block using at least one of the obtained corner depth values.

2. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the disparity vector comprises:

determining a horizontal component value of the disparity vector by using the default disparity vector and the reconstructed first layer depth map; and

determining a vertical component value of the disparity vector as a vertical component value of the default disparity vector.

3. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the disparity vector comprises setting a value of a component that has no relation with the reconstructed first layer depth map, from among a horizontal component value of the disparity vector and a vertical component value, as 0.

4. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the determining of whether the disparity vector is predictable comprises:

obtaining the disparity vector from the peripheral blocks according to a predetermined scanning sequence; and

when the disparity vector is obtained from the peripheral blocks, determining that the disparity vector is predictable.

5. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the interlayer video decoding method is performed when a second layer depth map corresponding to the second layer current block is not reconstructed.

6. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the determining of whether the disparity vector is predictable comprises, when the disparity vector obtained from the peripheral blocks indicates an outside of the first layer image in relation to the second layer current block, determining that the disparity vector is unpredictable.

7. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the default disparity vector is (0,0).

8. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 1, wherein the default disparity vector is a global disparity vector determined using the reconstructed first layer depth map.

9. The interlayer video decoding method of claim 8, wherein the default disparity vector is determined using an intermediate value of a bit depth of the reconstructed first layer depth map.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a computer program for executing the interlayer video decoding method of claim 1.

11. An interlayer video encoding method comprising:

generating a bitstream including encoding information generated by encoding a first layer image and a first layer depth map;

determining whether a disparity vector is predictable using peripheral blocks of a second layer current block; and

when the disparity vector is not predictable using the peripheral blocks, determining a disparity vector of the second layer current block by using a default disparity vector and the first layer depth map,

wherein the determining of the disparity vector comprises;

determining a reference block of the first layer depth map, the reference block being indicated by the default disparity vector;

obtaining corner depth values of the reference block of the first layer depth map; and

determining the disparity vector of the second layer current block using at least one of the obtained corner death values.

12. The interlayer video encoding method of claim 11, wherein the determining of the disparity vector comprises setting a value of a component that has no relation with the first layer depth map, from among a horizontal component value of the determined disparity vector and a vertical component value, as 0.

13. An interlayer video decoding apparatus comprising:

a first layer decoder configured to reconstruct, based on encoding information obtained from a bitstream, a first layer image and a first layer depth map; and

a disparity determiner configured to determine whether a disparity vector is predictable using peripheral blocks of a second layer current block, and when the disparity vector is not predictable using the peripheral blocks, determining a disparity vector of the second layer current block using a default disparity vector and the reconstructed first layer depth map,

wherein the disparity determiner is further configured to determine a reference block of the first layer depth map, the reference block being indicated by the default disparity vector, obtain corner depth values of the reference block of the first layer depth map, and determine the disparity vector of the second layer current block using at least one of the obtained corner depth values.