Transform Coefficient Coding in HEVC

Author

Sole, Joel ; Joshi, Rajan ; Nguyen Nguyen ; Tianying Ji ; Karczewicz, Marta ; Clare, G. ; Henry, F. ; Duenas, A.

Author_Institution

Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

12

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1765

Lastpage

1777

Abstract

This paper describes transform coefficient coding in the draft international standard of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) specification and the driving motivations behind its design. Transform coefficient coding in HEVC encompasses the scanning patterns and coding methods for the last significant coefficient, significance map, coefficient levels, and sign data. Special attention is paid to the new methods of last significant coefficient coding, multilevel significance maps, high-throughput binarization, and sign data hiding. Experimental results are provided to evaluate the performance of transform coefficient coding in HEVC.

Keywords

data encapsulation; transform coding; video coding; HEVC specification; coefficient levels; draft international standard; high efficiency video coding; high-throughput binarization; last significant coefficient coding; multilevel significance maps; scanning patterns; sign data hiding; transform coefficient coding; Encoding; Throughput; Transforms; Video coding; High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC); high throughput entropy coder; transform coefficient coding; video coding;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8215

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2223055

Filename

6324418