Palette-based compound image compression in HEVC by exploiting non-local spatial correlation

Wenjing Zhu, Oscar C. Au, Wei Dai, Haitao Yang, Rui Ma, Luheng Jia, Jin Zeng, Pengfei Wan

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Abstract

Non-camera captured images (also known as compound image) contain a mixture of camera-captured natural images and computer-generated graphics and texts. Nowadays, there are more and more applications calling for non-camera captured image/video compression scheme. However, current video coding standards, which are designed for natural video, treat non-camera captured video less carefully. For example, the state-of-the-art video coding standard High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) may blur or even remove edges in text/graphic region. A lot of schemes are proposed to preserve direction property of texts and graphics, such as palette-based intra coding. In this paper, a novel palette coding scheme is proposed for palette-based intra coding in HEVC. The palette in a block is predicted from an adaptive palette template, which records the statistical non-local spatial correlation of an image. Every block chooses its own palette using the palette template as the prediction in a rate-distortion optimized manner. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can achieve up to 5.2% bit-rate saving compared to the state-of-the-art palette-based coding scheme in HEVC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages7348-7352
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479928927
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20149 May 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period4/05/149/05/14

Keywords

  • Compound image compression
  • HEVC
  • palette prediction
  • palette-based coding

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