Spatial Information Refinement for Chroma Intra Prediction in Video Coding

Chengyi Zou, Shuai Wan, Tiannan Ji, Marta Mrak, Marc Gorriz Blanch, Luis Herranz

Video compression benefits from advanced chroma intra prediction methods, such as the Cross-Component Linear Model (CCLM) which uses linear models to approximate the relationship between the luma and chroma components. Recently it has been proven that advanced cross-component prediction methods based on Neural Networks (NN) can bring additional coding gains. In this paper, spatial information refinement is proposed for improving NN-based chroma intra prediction. Specifically, the performance of chroma intra prediction can be improved by refined down-sampling or by incorporating location information. Experimental results show that the two proposed methods obtain 0.31%, 2.64%, 2.02% and 0.33%, 3.00%, 2.12% BD-rate reduction on Y, Cb and Cr components, respectively, under All-Intra configuration, when implemented in Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC) test model. Index Terms-Chroma intra prediction, convolutional neural networks, spatial information refinement.

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