AMVPMerge Reference Picture List Reordering for Efficient Image Coding

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing demand for high-resolution and high-quality images leads to higher transmission and storage costs due to increased bit rates, necessitating a high-efficiency image compression technology.

Innovation Solution

An image encoding/decoding method utilizing an amvpMerge mode that reorders a reference picture list based on prediction modes, avoiding template matching-based reordering, and generates prediction samples accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If template matching-based reordering is applied to the reference picture list, then prediction accuracy is improved, but encoding complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoidencoding complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the prediction process by applying different reordering strategies to different prediction modes. Template matching-based reordering is applied only to merge mode, while amvp mode uses a different approach, thus avoiding unnecessary complexity in each mode while maintaining overall prediction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent dynamically adjusts the reordering strategy based on the prediction mode being used. The system switches between template matching-based reordering and alternative reordering methods depending on whether merge mode or amvp mode is selected, optimizing the balance between accuracy and complexity for each specific case.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If high-resolution and high-quality image compression is implemented, then image quality is improved, but transmission and storage costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage qualityVSAvoidtransmission and storage costs
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameters of the encoding process by introducing amvp mode with specific reordering rules that reduce the bit rate required for high-quality image transmission. By optimizing the reference picture list reordering specifically for amvp mode, the system achieves better compression efficiency, reducing transmission and storage costs while maintaining high image quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If amvp mode is applied with optimized reference picture list reordering, then encoding efficiency is improved, but processing overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveencoding efficiencyVSAvoidprocessing overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary reordering of the reference picture list specifically for amvp mode before the actual encoding process. By pre-organizing the reference pictures in the optimal order, the system reduces the processing overhead during real-time encoding, thus improving overall encoding efficiency without significant additional processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4614979A1Image encoding/decoding method based on amvpmerge mode, method for transmitting bitstream, and recording medium on which bitstream is stored
Publication Date: 2025.09.10 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

An image encoding/decoding method and device are provided. The image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: constructing a reference picture list for the current block; rearranging the reference picture list on the basis of whether a prediction mode of the current block is an amvpMerge mode, the amvpMerge mode being a prediction mode in which an advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) mode is applied to a first prediction direction of the current block and a merge mode is applied to a second prediction direction; and generating a prediction sample of the current block on the basis of the reference picture list, wherein template matching-based rearrangement cannot be applied to the reference picture list on the basis that the prediction mode of the current block is the amvpMerge mode.