Quality enhancement of VVC intra-frame coding for multimedia services over the Internet

Seunghyun Cho, Dong-Wook Kim and Seung-Won Jung

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020, vol. 16, issue 5, 1550147720917647

Abstract: In this article, versatile video coding, the next-generation video coding standard, is combined with a deep convolutional neural network to achieve state-of-the-art image compression efficiency. The proposed hierarchical grouped residual dense network exhaustively exploits hierarchical features in each architectural level to maximize the image quality enhancement capability. The basic building block employed for hierarchical grouped residual dense network is residual dense block which exploits hierarchical features from internal convolutional layers. Residual dense blocks are then combined into a grouped residual dense block exploiting hierarchical features from residual dense blocks. Finally, grouped residual dense blocks are connected to comprise a hierarchical grouped residual dense block so that hierarchical features from grouped residual dense blocks can also be exploited for quality enhancement of versatile video coding intra-coded images. Various non-architectural and architectural aspects affecting the training efficiency and performance of hierarchical grouped residual dense network are explored. The proposed hierarchical grouped residual dense network respectively obtained 10.72% and 14.3% of Bjøntegaard-delta-rate gains against versatile video coding in the experiments conducted on two public image datasets with different characteristics to verify the image compression efficiency.

Keywords: Image compression; coding artifact reduction; CNN; deep learning; VVC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/1550147720917647

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