Asymmetric partitioning with non-power-of-two transform for intra coding

HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is an ongoing standardization target as the next generation of video compression technology. HEVC employs a coding tree block, which is a quad-tree structure of a coding unit. It also employs some unit types; coding unit, prediction unit, and transform unit. A coding unit can be divided into smaller units as prediction units. Though an asymmetric unit is used for inter coding, only symmetric units are permitted for intra coding. In this paper, we propose an asymmetric partitioning with a non-power-of-two transform as a prediction and transform unit. While conventional partitioning locates the cross-point of partitioning lines at the center of the coding unit, the proposed method locates the cross-point in places except center. The proposed method reduces 2.0% BD-bitrate compared with HM5.0 under all intra / high efficiency condition. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed by some experimental results.