METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO BASED ON SCANNING ORDER OF HIERARCHICAL DATA UNITS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BASED ON SCANNING ORDER OF HIERARCHICAL DATA UNITS

摘要

A video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus based on a scanning order of hierarchical data units are provided. The decoding method includes: receiving and parsing a bitstream of an encoded video; extracting from the bitstream information about a size of a maximum coding unit for decoding a picture of the encoded video, and encoding information about a coded depth and an encoding mode for coding units of the picture, wherein the size of the maximum coding unit is a maximum size of a coding unit which is a data unit for decoding the picture; and determining a hierarchical structure of the maximum coding unit and the coding units into which the picture is divided according to depths, and decoding the picture based on the coding units, by using the information about the size of the maximum coding unit and the encoding information about the coded depth and the encoded mode.

主权项

1. A decoding apparatus comprising:
an extractor which extracts, from a bitstream, split information of a coding unit and partition type information; and a decoder which splits a picture into a plurality of maximum coding units, hierarchically splits at least one coding unit from a maximum coding unit among the plurality of maximum coding units by using the split information, determines a position of a current prediction unit in a current coding unit among the at least one coding unit by using the partition type information, determines a lower-left position outside of the current prediction unit by using the partition type information and the position of the current prediction unit, and when a scan index of a minimum unit corresponding to the lower-left position is less than a scan index of a minimum unit included in the current prediction unit, determines that a neighboring unit corresponding to the lower-left position is available to use for the current prediction unit, wherein the scan index follows a raster scan order between the plural maximum coding units, and wherein the scan index follows an upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right order between the coding units and between the minimum units in the coding units.