Telecommunications Science ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 73-81.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2021062

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Fast QTMT partition decision based on deep learning

Shuang PENG1, Xiaodong WANG1, Zongju PENG1,2, Fen CHEN2   

  1. 1 Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
    2 Faculty of Electrical and Electronics, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
  • Revised:2021-04-10 Online:2021-04-20 Published:2021-04-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61771269);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61620106012);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LY20F010005);The Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo(2019A610107);The Scientific Research Foundation of Chongqing University of Technology(2020ZDZ029);The Scientific Research Foundation of Chongqing University of Technology(2020ZDZ030)

Abstract:

Compared with the predecessor standards, versatile video coding (VVC) significantly improves compression efficiency by a quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT) structure but at the expense of extremely high coding complexity.To reduce the coding complexity of VVC, a fast QTMT partition method was proposed based on deep learning.Firstly, an attention-asymmetric convolutional neural network was proposed to predict the probability of partition modes.Then, the fast decision of partition modes based on the threshold was proposed.Finally, the cost of coding performance and time was proposed to obtain the optimal threshold, and the threshold decision method was proposed.Experimental results at different levels show that the proposed method achieves an average time saving of 48.62%/52.93%/62.01% with the negligible BDBR of 1.05%/1.33%/2.38%.Such results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.

Key words: VVC, QTMT, fast partition decision, deep learning

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