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Ariel Shleifer

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Proceedings Article | 19 September 2017 Presentation + Paper

Novel modes and adaptive block scanning order for intra prediction in AV1

Ofer Hadar, Ariel Shleifer, Debargha Mukherjee, Urvang Joshi, Itai Mazar, Michael Yuzvinsky, Nitzan Tavor, Nati Itzhak, Raz Birman

Proceedings Volume 10396, 103960G (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274035

KEYWORDS: Video compression, Video, Video coding, Image transmission, Image compression, Multimedia

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The demand for streaming video content is on the rise and growing exponentially. Networks bandwidth is very costly and therefore there is a constant effort to improve video compression rates and enable the sending of reduced data volumes while retaining quality of experience (QoE). One basic feature that utilizes the spatial correlation of pixels for video compression is Intra-Prediction, which determines the codec’s compression efficiency. Intra prediction enables significant reduction of the Intra-Frame (I frame) size and, therefore, contributes to efficient exploitation of bandwidth. In this presentation, we propose new Intra-Prediction algorithms that improve the AV1 prediction model and provide better compression ratios. Two (2) types of methods are considered: )1( New scanning order method that maximizes spatial correlation in order to reduce prediction error; and )2( New Intra-Prediction modes implementation in AVI. Modern video coding standards, including AVI codec, utilize fixed scan orders in processing blocks during intra coding. The fixed scan orders typically result in residual blocks with high prediction error mainly in blocks with edges. This means that the fixed scan orders cannot fully exploit the content-adaptive spatial correlations between adjacent blocks, thus the bitrate after compression tends to be large. To reduce the bitrate induced by inaccurate intra prediction, the proposed approach adaptively chooses the scanning order of blocks according to criteria of firstly predicting blocks with maximum number of surrounding, already Inter-Predicted blocks. Using the modified scanning order method and the new modes has reduced the MSE by up to five (5) times when compared to conventional TM mode / Raster scan and up to two (2) times when compared to conventional CALIC mode / Raster scan, depending on the image characteristics (which determines the percentage of blocks predicted with Inter-Prediction, which in turn impacts the efficiency of the new scanning method). For the same cases, the PSNR was shown to improve by up to 7.4dB and up to 4 dB, respectively. The new modes have yielded 5% improvement in BD-Rate over traditionally used modes, when run on K-Frame, which is expected to yield ~1% of overall improvement.

Proceedings Article | 27 September 2016 Presentation + Paper

Novel intra prediction modes for VP10 codec

Ariel Shleifer, Chinmayi Lanka, Mohit Setia, Shubham Agarwal, Ofer Hadar, Debargha Mukherjee

Proceedings Volume 9971, 997114 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238140

KEYWORDS: Video compression, Video, Computer programming, Image compression, Error analysis, Cameras, Raster graphics, Quantization, Electrical engineering, Image restoration

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Proceedings Article | 22 September 2015 Paper

Restoration of hot pixels in digital imagers using lossless approximation techniques

O. Hadar, A. Shleifer, E. Cohen, Y. Dotan

Proceedings Volume 9599, 959931 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186101

KEYWORDS: Imaging systems, Image compression, Error analysis, Raster graphics, Cameras, Image quality, Image segmentation, Data communications, Communication engineering, Satellite imaging

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