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US 11,503,298 · App. 17/555,881 · Granted Nov 15, 2022

Signaling of information indicating transform kernel set in image coding

Inventors: Junghak Nam (Seoul, KR); Moonmo Koo (Seoul, KR); Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, KR); Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04N19/124H04N19/625H04N19/94H04N19/39
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Patent No.
US 11,503,298
App. No.
17/555,881
Granted
Nov 15, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of generating residual samples of a current block on the basis of residual information, wherein the residual information comprises a multiple transform selection (MTS) index and information regarding transform coefficients, the residual samples are generated from transform coefficients according to the information regarding the transform coefficients by using a transform kernel set, the transform kernel set is determined by the MTS index from among transform kernel set candidates, at least one of bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived on the basis of context coding, the context coding is performed based on a value of a context index with respect to the MTS index.

Claims (48)

1. An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:

obtaining residual information from a bitstream;

generating residual samples of a current block based on the residual information; and

generating reconstructed samples of the current block based on the residual samples,

wherein the residual information includes information about multiple transform selection (MTS) index and transform coefficients,

wherein the residual samples are generated from the transform coefficients according to the information about the transform coefficients by using a transform kernel set,

wherein the transform kernel set is determined from among transform kernel set candidates based on the MTS index,

wherein at least one bin among bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived based on context coding,

wherein the context coding is performed based on a value of a context index increment for the MTS index, and

wherein the bin string of the MTS index includes up to 4 bins, wherein a number of context index increments allocated to a bin which is derived by the context coding among the 4 bins is one.

2. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein a value of the context index increment for a first bin among the bins of the bin string is 0, a value of the context index increment for a second bin among the bins of the bin string is 1, a value of the context index increment for a third bin among the bins of the bin string is 2, and a value of the context index increment for a fourth bin among the bins of the bin string is 3.

3. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein a value of the context index increment for a first bin among the bins of the bin string is 0, and a value of the context index increment for a second bin among the bins of the bin string is 1, and

remaining bins among the bins of the bin string are derived based on bypass coding.

4. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein a value of the context index increment for a first bin among the bins of the bin string is 0, and

remaining bins among the bins of the bin string are derived based on bypass coding.

5. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the transform kernel set comprises a transform kernel to be applied to the current block in a horizontal direction, and a transform kernel to be applied to the current block in a vertical direction.

6. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein each of a transform kernel to be applied in a horizontal direction and a transform kernel to be applied in a vertical direction is derived as one of candidates including DCT2, DST7, and DCT8 based on the MTS index.

7. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the MTS index is derived as one of candidates including 0 to 4, and

the MTS index is derived based on the bins of the bin string of the MTS index.

8. An image encoding method performed by an encoding apparatus, the method comprising:

deriving residual samples for a current block;

generating residual information based on the residual samples for the current block; and

encoding video information including the residual information to generate a bitstream,

wherein the residual information includes information about multiple transform selection (MTS) index and transform coefficients,

wherein the information about the transform coefficients is generated from the residual samples by using a transform kernel set,

wherein the MTS index indicates the transform kernel set among transform kernel set candidates,

wherein at least one bin among bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived based on context coding,

wherein the context coding is performed based on a value of a context index increment for the MTS index, and

wherein the bin string of the MTS index includes up to 4 bins, wherein a number of context index increments allocated to a bin which is derived by the context coding among the 4 bins is one.

9. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein a value of the context index increment for a first bin among the bins of the bin string is 0, a value of the context index increment for a second bin among the bins of the bin string is 1, a value of the context index increment for a third bin among the bins of the bin string is 2, and a value of the context index increment for a fourth bin among the bins of the bin string is 3.

10. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein a value of the context index increment for a first bin among the bins of the bin string is 0, and a value of the context index increment for a second bin among the bins of the bin string is 1, and

remaining bins among the bins of the bin string are represented based on bypass coding.

11. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein a value of the context index increment for a first bin among the bins of the bin string is 0, and

remaining bins among the bins of the bin string are represented based on bypass coding.

12. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein the transform kernel set comprises a transform kernel to be applied to the current block in a horizontal direction, and a transform kernel to be applied to the current block in a vertical direction.

13. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein each of a transform kernel to be applied in a horizontal direction and a transform kernel to be applied in a vertical direction is represented as one of candidates including DCT2, DST7, and DCT8 based on the MTS index.

14. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein the MTS index is represented as one of candidates including 0 to 4, and

the MTS index is represented based on the bins of the bin string of the MTS index.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable digital storage medium storing a bitstream generated by an image encoding method, the method comprising:

deriving residual samples for a current block;

generating residual information based on the residual samples for the current block; and

encoding video information including the residual information to generate the bitstream,

wherein the residual information includes information about multiple transform selection (MTS) index and transform coefficients,

wherein the information about the transform coefficients is generated from the residual samples by using a transform kernel set,

wherein the MTS index indicates the transform kernel set among transform kernel set candidates,

wherein at least one bin among bins of a bin string of the MTS index is derived based on context coding,

wherein the context coding is performed based on a value of a context index increment for the MTS index, and

wherein the bin string of the MTS index includes up to 4 bins, wherein a number of context index increments allocated to a bin which is derived by the context coding among the 4 bins is one.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 20, 2022
From: NAM, JUNGHAK; KOO, MOONMO; LIM, JAEHYUN; KIM, SEUNGHWAN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 059975/0276 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTKR2020007597 · Jun 11, 2020
Provisional Application 62863813 · Jun 19, 2019
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