Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2015, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (2): 197-205.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-2861.2014.03.015

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Self-adaptive fast mode decision algorithm for depth map intra coding

SI Xiao-hua, WANG Guo-zhong, ZHAO Hai-wu, LI Guo-ping, TENG Guo-wei   

  1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2014-03-27 Online:2015-04-29 Published:2015-04-29

Abstract: In the high efficiency video code (HEVC) based depth video coding in 3D video coding, depth modeling mode (DMM) and a region boundary chain (RBC) mode
are introduced. DMM traverses all Wedgelet patterns in the current coding unit (CU) to get the best prediction pattern. Encoding efficiency is improved significantly by these added technologies. Computation complexity is increased significantly, hindering its practical application. To reduce computation complexity, a fast depth mode decision algorithm is proposed for depth video coding based on correlation between the most probable mode and DMM and RBC mode. The proposed method divides coding blocks into flat blocks, directional blocks and texture-complicated blocks. Redundant DMM and RBC mode are
skipped for flat blocks. Explicit Wedgelet search patterns are skipped for directional blocks based on directivity of non-flat blocks. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce computational complexity of depth coding by 75.4% for all-intra test case, with BD-rate increase of only 0.4% after decoder-side view synthesis.

Key words: depth map, depth modeling mode (DMM), fast algorithm, mode decision

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