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Efficient residual data coding in CABAC for HEVC lossless video compression

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After the development of the next generation video coding standard, referred to as high efficiency video coding (HEVC), the joint collaborative team of the ITU-T video coding experts group and the ISO/IEC moving picture experts group has now also standardized a lossless extension of such a standard. HEVC was originally designed for lossy video compression, thus, not ideal for lossless video compression. In this paper, we propose an efficient residual data coding method for HEVC lossless video compression. Based on the fact that there are statistical differences of residual data between lossy and lossless coding, we improved the HEVC lossless coding using sample-based angular prediction (SAP), modified level binarization, and binarization table selection with the weighted sum of previously encoded level values. Experimental results show that the proposed method provides high compression ratio up to 11.32 and reduces decoding complexity.

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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. Efficient residual data coding in CABAC for HEVC lossless video compression. SIViP 9, 1055–1066 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-013-0545-z

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