Title
Invertibility-Driven Interpolation Filter for Video Coding.
Abstract
Motion compensation with fractional motion vector has been widely utilized in the video coding standards. The fractional samples are usually generated by fractional interpolation filters. Traditional interpolation filters are usually designed based on the signal processing theory with the assumption of bandlimited signal, which cannot effectively capture the non-stationary property of video content and cannot adapt to the variety of video quality. In this paper, we firstly reveal an intuitive property of the fractional interpolation problem, named invertibility. That is the fractional interpolation filters should not only generate fractional samples from integer samples but also recover the integer samples from the fractional samples in an invertible manner. We prove in theory that the invertibility in the spatial domain is equivalent to the constant magnitude in the Fourier transform domain. Driven by the invertibility, we then develop a learning-based method to solve the fractional interpolation problem. Inspired by the advances of convolutional neural network (CNN), we propose to establish an end-to-end scheme using CNN to train invertibility-driven interpolation filter (InvIF). Different from the previous learning-based methods, the proposed training scheme does not need hand-crafted "ground truth" of fractional samples. The proposed InvIF is integrated into High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and extensive experiments are conducted to verify its effectiveness. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve on average 4.7reduction compared with the HEVC anchor, under Low-Delay-B and Random-Access configurations, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TIP.2019.2912292
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interpolation,Video coding,Training,Motion compensation,Standards,Learning systems,Finite impulse response filters
Integer,Signal processing,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Motion compensation,Interpolation,Fourier transform,Artificial intelligence,Video quality,Mathematics,Motion vector
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
10
1941-0042
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
32
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ning Yan1285.07
Dong Liu272174.92
Houqiang Li32090172.30
Bin Li478279.80
Li Li523535.19
Feng Wu63635295.09