A Low-latency Depth Modelling Mode-1 Encoder in 3D-high Efficiency Video Coding Standard
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摘要: 为了更好地对3D视频中深度图进行编码,该文将3维高效视频编码(3D-HEVC)标准新引入了深度建模模式(DMMs),新模式在提高了编码质量的同时改进了原有算法的复杂度。在设计DMM-1编码器电路时,传统架构电路的编码周期均较长,只能满足较低分辨率和帧率的视频实时编码要求。为了进一步提高3D-HEVC中DMM-1编码器的性能,该文对DMM-1算法架构进行了研究,针对其中楔形块评估无数据相关性的特点,提出了一种5级流水线架构的DMM-1编码器硬件电路,以期能够降低一个深度块编码所需的编码周期,并使用Verilog HDL进行实现。实验表明:该架构与Sanchez等人(2017年)的工作相比,以电路门数增加约1568门为代价,可减少至少52.3%的编码周期。Abstract: In order to encode better the depth maps in 3D video, the 3D-High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC) standard is introduced in Depth Modeling Modes(DMMs), which increase the quality of original algorithm while improving the encoding complexity. The traditional architecture of DMM-1 encoder circuit has a longer coding period and can only meet real-time coding requirements of lower resolution and frame rate. In order to improve the performance of DMM-1 encoder, the structure of DMM-1 algorithm is researched and a five-stage pipeline architecture of DMM-1 encoder is proposed. The pipeline architecture can reduce the coding cycles. The architecture is implemented by Verilog HDL. Experiments show that this architecture can reduce the coding cycle by at least 52.3%, at the cost of 1568 gates compared to previous work by Sanchez G. et al. (2017).
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表 1 深度图帧内预测模式序号和名称
模式序号 模式名称 0 Planar 1 DC 2~34 Directional 35 DMM-1 36 DMM-4 -
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