METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE BY USING LARGE TRANSFORMATION UNIT

摘要

An image decoding method including determining coding units having a hierarchical structure for decoding an image using split information of a coding unit, determining at least one prediction unit for predicting a coding unit among the coding units using information about a partition type, determining at least one transformation unit for inversely transforming the coding unit using split information of the at least one transformation unit, wherein the split information of a coding unit, the information about a partition type and the information about a depth of the at least one transformation unit are parsed from a bitstream, parsing from the bitstream transformation coefficients generated by transformation according to the at least one transformation unit generated by dividing the coding unit, reconstructing residual of the at least one transformation unit by performing inverse quantization and inverse transformation on the parsed transformation coefficients, and performing intra prediction or inter prediction on the prediction unit to generate a predictor, and reconstructs the image based on the residual and the predictor.

主权项

1. An image decoding method comprising:
determining coding units having a hierarchical structure for decoding an image using split information of a coding unit; determining at least one prediction unit for predicting a coding unit among the coding units using information about a partition type; determining at least one transformation unit for inversely transforming the coding unit using split information of the at least one transformation unit, wherein the split information of a coding unit, the information about a partition type and the split information of the at least one transformation unit are parsed from a bitstream; parsing from the bitstream transformation coefficients generated by transformation according to the at least one transformation unit generated by dividing the coding unit; reconstructing residual of the at least one transformation unit by performing inverse quantization and inverse transformation on the parsed transformation coefficients; and performing intra prediction or inter prediction on the prediction unit to generate a predictor, and reconstructing the image based on the residual and the predictor, wherein: the image is split into a plurality of maximum coding units based on information about a maximum size of a coding unit; a maximum coding unit is hierarchically split into the coding units of depths including a current depth and a lower depth using the split information of a coding unit, when the split information indicates a split for the current depth, the coding unit of the current depth is split into four coding units of the lower depth, independently from neighboring coding units, when the split information indicates non-split for the current depth, the at least one prediction unit is determined from a coding unit of the current depth and the at least one transformation unit is determined from the coding unit of the current depth, and a size of the at least one transformation unit in the coding unit of the current depth is determined independently from a size of the at least one prediction unit in the coding unit of the current depth.