A New HEVC Intra Mode for Screen Content Coding

Because of the poor effect of the traditional coding methods on the screen content coding, considering the screen content is rich in non-continuous tone content, a new intra coding mode based on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which is called Intra String Copy (ISC), is proposed. The basic idea is adopting the dictionary coding tool on the HEVC Coding Unit (CU) level. When encoding, the current CU pixels are searched and matched in a certain length dictionary window by using Hash table. When decoding, according to the pixels string matching distances and lengths, the current CU pixels in the reconstruction cache are restored by copying the corresponding position pixels. Experiment results show that with little coding complexity increase than HEVC, for typical screen content test sequences, ISC can achieve lossy coding bit-rate saving of 15.1%, 12.0%, 8.3% for All Intra (AI), Random Access (RA), and Low-delay B (LB) configurations, respectively, and lossless coding bit-rate saving of 23.3%, 14.9%, 11.6% for AI, RA, and LB configurations.