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This article presents a configurable fast block partitioning decision for Versatile Video Coding (VVC) intra-frame prediction using Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LGBM). VVC further improves the coding efficiency by introducing a Quadtree with nested Multi-Type Tree (QTMT), enabling five split types allowing square and rectangular Coding Unit (CU) sizes. However, this improvement in the coding efficiency comes at the cost of a high computational burden since several combinations of block sizes and prediction modes are evaluated through the costly Rate-Distortion Optimization (RDO) process. In this article, we propose a partitioning decision using LGBM classifiers to avoid the exhaustive RDO process and skip the evaluation of split types that are unlikely to be chosen as the best one. For this purpose, five classifiers (one for each split type) were offline trained with an efficient training process and using effective features of texture, coding, and context information. The proposed solution is highly configurable and can provide several operation points with different tradeoffs between timesaving and coding efficiency, according to the application requirements. Considering five operation points, the configurable solution can reduce the encoding time from 35.22% to 61.34%, with coding efficiency losses from 0.46% to 2.43%. Compared to the state-of-the-art, our solution is able to outperform the related works in terms of combined rate-distortion and timesaving.
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Mário Saldanha
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Gustavo Sanchez
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
César Marcon
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Instituto Federal Farroupilha
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synapsesocial.com/papers/69defe569dc1adad2fedbc79 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsvt.2021.3108671