Test Model 15 (HM15) Encoder Description.docVIP

Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T SG16 WP3 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 17th Meeting: Valencia, ES, 27 Mar. – 4 Apr. 2014 Document: JCTVC-Q1002 Title: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 15 (HM15) Encoder Description Status: Output Document of JCT-VC Purpose: Report Author(s) orContact(s): Il-Koo Kim (Samsung) Ken McCann (Samsung/ZetaCast) Kazuo Sugimoto (Mitsubishi) Benjamin Bross (HHI) Woo-Jin Han (Gachon University) Gary Sullivan (Microsoft Corp.) Email: ilkoo.kim@ ken@ sugimoto@ benjamin.bross@hhi.fraunhofer.de hurumi@ garysull@ Source: Editors _____________________________ Abstract The JCT-VC established an 15th HEVC test model (HM15) at its 17th meeting in Valencia from 27 March to 4 April 2014. This document serves as a source of general tutorial information on HEVC and also provides an encoder-side description of HM15. CONTENTS Page Abstract 1 List of figures 4 List of tables 5 1 Introduction 6 2 Scope 7 3 Description of HEVC Test Model 7 3.1 General overview of coding structure 7 3.2 Picture partitioning 8 3.2.1 CTU partitioning 8 3.2.2 Slice and tile structures 9 3.2.3 Coding unit (CU) and coding tree structure 10 3.2.4 Prediction unit (PU) structure 10 3.2.5 Transform unit (TU) and transform tree structure 11 3.3 Intra Prediction 12 3.3.1 Prediction modes 12 3.3.2 Filtering of neighbouring samples 13 3.4 Inter Prediction 13 3.4.1 Prediction modes 13 Derivation of merge candidates 14 Spatial merge candidates 14 Temporal merge candidates 15 Generated merge candidates 16 3.4.2 Motion vector prediction 16 Derivation of motion vector prediction candidates 16 Spatial motion vector candidates 17 Temporal motion vector candidates 17 3.4.3 Interpolation filter 17 3.4.4 Weighted Prediction 18 3.5 Transform and quantization (scaling) 18 3.5.1 Transform matrices 19 3.5.2 2D inverse transform 20 3.5.3 Discrete sine transform (DST) 20 3.5.4 Transform skip 20 3.5.5 Scaling and quantization 20 3.6 Entropy Coding 2