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Improved entropy coding for quantized transform coefficients in HEVC screen content coding

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In the emerging high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard, a Golomb-Rice code is adopted to binarize level information. The Golomb-Rice code is optimal for encoding symbols with the exponential probability distribution. In general, quantized transform coefficients of natural images show the exponential probability distribution. However, screen contents usually have a totally different probability distribution, and the Golomb-Rice code is not appropriate for screen content coding. In this paper, we focus on a new entropy coding scheme for screen content coding. In the proposed scheme, we clip inefficient high magnitude coefficient levels that do not fit the exponential probability distribution. Then, we apply a limited length Golomb-Rice code to binarize clipped levels. From experimental results, it is verified that the proposed method achieves on average 0.60 % BD-rate saving and up to 1.13 % BD-rate saving, compared to HEVC screen content coding. When the proposed method is combined with a well-known screen content coding technique, transform skipping, it shows up to 24.02 % BD-rate saving.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2012-0009228).

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Choi, JA., Ho, YS. Improved entropy coding for quantized transform coefficients in HEVC screen content coding. SIViP 9, 1067–1079 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-013-0542-2

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