Visually Lossless Screen Content Coding using HEVC Base-layer
 
Visually Lossless Screen Content Coding using HEVC Base-layer ■
 
Geert Braeckman, Geert Braeckman, Geert Braeckman, Shahid Mahmood Satti, Shahid Mahmood Satti, Shahid Mahmood Satti, Heng Chen, Heng Chen, Heng Chen, Adrian Munteanu, Adrian Munteanu, Adrian Munteanu, Peter Schelkens, Peter Schelkens, Peter Schelkens
 
Abstract ■

This paper presents a novel two-layer coding framework targeting visually lossless compression of screen content video. The proposed framework employs the conventional HEVC standard for the base-layer. For the enhancement layer, a hybrid of spatial and temporal block-prediction mechanism is introduced to guarantee a small energy of the error-residual. Spatial prediction is generally chosen for dynamic areas, while temporal predictions yield better prediction for static areas in a video frame. The prediction residual is quantized based on whether a given block is static or dynamic. Run-length coding, Golomb based binarization and context-based arithmetic coding are employed to efficiently code the quantized residual and form the enhancement-layer. Performance evaluations using 4:4:4 screen content sequences show that, for visually lossless video quality, the proposed system significantly saves the bit-rate compared to the two-layer lossless HEVC framework.