Abstract:
A screen image encoding method includes: obtaining and storing one or more candidate blocks, which are spatially co-located with a current block, from images encoded prior to a current image; determining whether a reference block used to encode the current block exists in the stored one or more candidate blocks; and encoding at least one of index information indicating the reference block, prediction information used to encode the current block from the reference block, and information about the current block, based on a result of the determining.
Abstract:
A method of encoding an image includes obtaining a quantization parameter; determining a size of a smoothing block based on the quantization parameter, determining threshold values based on a main pixel in the smoothing block, selecting a pixel having a pixel value between the threshold values, from among pixels included in the smoothing block, performing a smoothing operation with respect to the main pixel based on the pixel value of the selected pixel, and encoding an image with respect to which the smoothing operation is performed.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for implementing cloud computing by efficiently encoding a display screen between a cloud server and a client terminal. The method for encoding a cloud display screen in the cloud server, includes: acquiring region information of currently generated windows based on an application programming interface (API) function information of an Operating System (OS); extracting relative depth information between each of the currently generated windows from the OS; generating an encoding mode map in which an entire screen is divided into a plurality of blocks, based on the acquired region information and the extracted relative depth information; and encoding each of the plurality of blocks based on the generated encoding mode map.
Abstract:
Provided are binary image encoding and decoding methods and binary image encoding and decoding apparatuses using an adaptive template. The binary image encoding method includes: applying a window having a predetermined size and shape to a predetermined number of previous pixels and peripheral pixels of the previous pixels, and acquiring correlations between the previous pixels and the peripheral pixels within the window; determining relative locations having high correlation with the previous pixels within the window based on the acquired correlations; generating a template based on the determined relative locations; and performing binary arithmetic encoding on a current pixel by using the generated template.
Abstract:
A method of processing an image by a device obtaining one or more images including captured images of objects in a target space, generating metadata including information about mapping between the one or more images and a three-dimensional (3D) mesh model used to generate a virtual reality (VR) image of the target space, and transmitting the one or more images and the metadata to a terminal.
Abstract:
A method of processing an image by a device obtaining one or more images including captured images of objects in a target space, generating metadata including information about mapping between the one or more images and a three-dimensional (3D) mesh model used to generate a virtual reality (VR) image of the target space, and transmitting the one or more images and the metadata to a terminal.
Abstract:
An encoding apparatus for encoding an image includes: a communicator configured to receive, from a device, device information related to the device; and a processor configured to encode the image by using image information of the image and the device information, wherein the processor is further configured to process the image according to at least one of the device information and the image information, determine a non-encoding region, a block-based encoding region, and a pixel-based encoding region of the image according to at least one of the device information and the image information, performs block-based encoding on the block-based encoding region by using a quantization parameter determined according to at least one of the device information and the image information, perform pixel-based encoding on the pixel-based encoding region, generates an encoded image by entropy encoding a symbol determined by the block-based encoding or the pixel-based encoding, and generate a bitstream comprising the encoded image, region information of the block-based encoding region and the pixel-based encoding region, and quantization information of the quantization parameter, and wherein the communicator is further configured to transmit the bitstream to the device.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of determining whether an image is to be re-encoded, the method including obtaining a first quantization matrix from an image file including the image, the image being encoded by quantization based on the first quantization matrix including a plurality of first quantization parameters; obtaining a second quantization matrix from a re-encoding device, the second quantization matrix including a plurality of second quantization parameters and having the same size as the first quantization matrix; determining a comparison coefficient based on elements greater than ‘0’ among elements of a comparison matrix obtained by subtracting the first quantization matrix from the second quantization matrix; and determining that the image is to be decoded by inverse quantization based on the first quantization matrix and the decoded image is to be re-encoded by quantization based on the second quantization matrix, when the comparison coefficient is greater than a first threshold value.
Abstract:
Provided is a re-encoding method including obtaining a first quantization table from a bitstream including an image encoded using the first quantization table; obtaining a second quantization table based on a pattern representing a size distribution of values of elements of the first quantization table, the second quantization table including elements respectively corresponding to the elements of the first quantization table; and re-encoding a reconstructed image by using the second quantization table, the reconstructed image being obtained by decoding the encoded image by using the first quantization table.