Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2021, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 433-432.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2021.03.009

• Signal and Information Processing • Previous Articles    

FSCD-CNN Based Fast Mode Decision Algorithm for Intra-prediction in Depth Map Coding

CUI Pengtao1, ZHANG Qian1, LIU Jinghuai1, ZHOU Chao1, WANG Bin1, SI Wen2   

  1. 1. School of Information, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China;
    2. Faculty of Business Information, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai 201400, China
  • Received:2019-12-18 Published:2021-06-08

Abstract: In view of the coding complexity caused by the encoding format of multiview video plus depth map and the quadtree coding structure in 3D-HEVC, a fast intra prediction mode selection algorithm for depth images based on FSCD-CNN (fast selecting cu’s depth-convolutional neural network) is proposed. First, a training set is obtained by dividing the depth of the optimal depth map LCU (largest coding unit) of a depth video sequence as labels. Second, a FSCD-CNN network is constructed, which is suitable for deep decision-making of LCU. At last, the optimal division of LCU is achieved by carrying out the depth-division prediction of depth map LCU and skipping some coding mode decisions. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm could reduce the coding time by 15% on average while maintaining the same coding performance as other relevant literatures, and verify the effectiveness and reliability of this method.

Key words: 3D-HEVC, depth map, largest coding unit (LCU), convolutional neural network (CNN), coding complexity

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