TY - GEN
T1 - Extended Quad-Tree Partitioning for Future Video Coding
AU - Wang, Meng
AU - Li, Junru
AU - Zhang, Li
AU - Zhang, Kai
AU - Liu, Hongbin
AU - Wang, Shiqi
AU - Kwong, Sam
AU - Ma, Siwei
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - The quad-tree plus binary-tree (QTBT) coding unit (CU) partitioning structure, which has been adopted to the next generation video coding standard, shows promising coding performance when compared with the conventional quad-tree structure in HEVC. In this paper, we propose the Extended Quad-tree (EQT) partitioning, which further extends the QTBT scheme and increases the partitioning flexibility. More specifically, EQT splits a parent CU into four sub-CUs of different sizes, which can adequately model the local image content that cannot be elaborately characterized with QTBT. Meanwhile, EQT partitioning allows the interleaving with BT partitioning for enhanced adaptability. Experimental results on the JEM7-QTBT-Only platform show that EQT brings better coding performance with 3.17%, 3.20% and 3.06% BD-Rate gains under random access, low-delay P and low-delay B configurations, respectively.
AB - The quad-tree plus binary-tree (QTBT) coding unit (CU) partitioning structure, which has been adopted to the next generation video coding standard, shows promising coding performance when compared with the conventional quad-tree structure in HEVC. In this paper, we propose the Extended Quad-tree (EQT) partitioning, which further extends the QTBT scheme and increases the partitioning flexibility. More specifically, EQT splits a parent CU into four sub-CUs of different sizes, which can adequately model the local image content that cannot be elaborately characterized with QTBT. Meanwhile, EQT partitioning allows the interleaving with BT partitioning for enhanced adaptability. Experimental results on the JEM7-QTBT-Only platform show that EQT brings better coding performance with 3.17%, 3.20% and 3.06% BD-Rate gains under random access, low-delay P and low-delay B configurations, respectively.
KW - CU Partitioning
KW - EQT
KW - Extended quad tree partitioning
KW - Future video coding
KW - QTBT
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U2 - 10.1109/DCC.2019.00038
DO - 10.1109/DCC.2019.00038
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
T3 - Data Compression Conference Proceedings
SP - 300
EP - 309
BT - Proceedings - DCC 2019 Data Compression Conference
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2019 Data Compression Conference, DCC 2019
Y2 - 26 March 2019 through 29 March 2019
ER -