VIDEO CODING DEVICE, VIDEO CODING METHOD, AND VIDEO CODING PROGRAM

摘要

A video coding device for coding video based on a recursive quadtree structure includes: a coding cost decision unit 11 for deciding a node coding cost of a node image block corresponding to a node to be processed; a child node coding cost decision unit 12 for deciding a child node coding cost of each of child node image blocks corresponding to four child nodes of the node to be processed; a representative child node selection unit 13 for selecting one or more representative child nodes from the four child nodes of the node to be processed; a normalization unit 14 for normalizing the node coding cost based on the number of the selected one or more representative child nodes; and a divide decision unit 15 for comparing the normalized node coding cost with child node coding costs of the representative child nodes, to decide whether or not to divide the node to be processed.