METHOD FOR DERIVING CODING INFORMATION FOR HIGH RESOLUTION PICTURES FROM LOW RESOLUTON PICTURES AND CODING AND DECODING DEVICES IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD

摘要

The invention relates to spatially scalable encoding and decoding processes using a method for deriving coding information. More particularly, it relates to a method for deriving coding information for high resolution pictures from the coding information of low resolution pictures. The method mainly comprises the following steps: - Computing (110) geometrical parameters characterizing the position of said high layer macroblock relatively to the corresponding base layer macroblocks and deriving (120) from these parameters a macroblock class; - Deriving (20) a partition and possibly sub-partitions for each partition of said high layer macroblock from corresponding base layer macroblocks partition and sub-partitions on the basis of the geometrical parameters and HL MB class; and - Deriving (30) motion information for said high layer macroblock from motion information of corresponding base layer macroblocks.