Graph-based transforms for inter predicted video coding

In video coding, motion compensation is an essential tool to obtain residual block signals whose transform coefficients are encoded. This paper proposes novel graph-based transforms (GBTs) for coding inter-predicted residual block signals. Our contribution is twofold: (i) We develop edge adaptive GBTs (EA-GBTs) derived from graphs estimated from residual blocks, and (ii) we design template adaptive GBTs (TA-GBTs) by introducing simplified graph templates generating different set of GBTs with low transform signaling overhead. Our experimental results show that proposed methods significantly outperform traditional DCT and KLT in terms of rate-distortion performance.

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