A method and apparatus for encoding of a video sequence in an encoder or decoding of the video sequence in a decoder includes parsing an initial motion vector from the video sequence associated with a block. A plurality of samples are determined and pre-fetched to permit both motion vector refinement and motion compensation based on parsing the initial motion vector. Motion vector refinement is performed to determine a final motion vector using a first subset of the plurality of samples, and motion compensation is performed using a second subset of the plurality of samples.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a video image processing method performed at a computing device, including: after performing deblocking and sample adaptive offset on a reconstructed coding tree unit within a target image frame, performing half pixel estimation on the coding tree unit of the target image frame to obtain an optimal half pixel location having a minimum rate distortion cost; dividing a surrounding area of the optimal half pixel location into four partitions; selecting, among the four partitions according to rate distortion costs respectively of four half pixel locations adjacent to the optimal half pixel location, a first partition used for quarter pixel estimation; performing quarter pixel estimation on the first partition according to the optimal half pixel location, to obtain an optimal quarter pixel location having a minimum rate distortion cost within the first partition; and performing motion compensation to the target image frame by using at least one of the optimal half pixel location and the optimal quarter pixel location as a motion estimation result.

A video processing method includes maintaining one or more motion candidate tables; performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the current video block using multiple video processing operations in a sequence using a motion candidate table; and updating the motion candidate table due to completion of a particular processing operation.

A method and a device for encoding or decoding video data. It concerns more particularly the encoding according to a particular encoding mode using a decoder side motion vector derivation mode referenced as frame-rate up conversion mode or FRUC mode. In FRUC merge mode, the derivation process comprises a refinement step to increase the accuracy of the obtained motion vector at the sub-pixel level. This process involves the evaluation of different sub-pixel position around the obtained motion vector according to different patterns. The present invention has been devised to improve the known refinement step. It aims at improving the coding efficiency by considering the characteristics of the matching type and/or the signal inside the templates.

A method includes: performing a first diamond search according to an initial point determined from points in a search window, a search step size being incremented by i.sup.th power of 2, i being a natural number, 0≤i≤N; and performing the following first processing: acquiring an updated initial point and an optimization range, the optimization range being less than 2.sup.N; performing a second diamond search according to the initial point, wherein, prior to a search with a search step size larger than the optimization range, if it is determined that an ending condition is met, the diamond search is ended and a corresponding second optimal point is determined; and determining a required optimal motion vector according to the second optimal point if the second optimal point meets a predetermined requirement, and otherwise, repeating the first processing.

A method includes: performing a first diamond search according to an initial point determined from points in a search window, a search step size being incremented by i.sup.th power of 2, i being a natural number, 0≤i≤N; and performing the following first processing: acquiring an updated initial point and an optimization range, the optimization range being less than 2.sup.N; performing a second diamond search according to the initial point, wherein, prior to a search with a search step size larger than the optimization range, if it is determined that an ending condition is met, the diamond search is ended and a corresponding second optimal point is determined; and determining a required optimal motion vector according to the second optimal point if the second optimal point meets a predetermined requirement, and otherwise, repeating the first processing.

An image decoding method and an image decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises recovering a first motion vector corresponding to a first decoding reference picture based on the entropy decoded bit stream, calculating a second motion vector corresponding to a second decoding reference picture by scaling the first motion vector based on a first temporal distance between the current picture and the first decoding reference picture and a second temporal distance between the current picture and the second decoding reference picture, generating a prediction block relating to a current block in the current picture, based on the calculated second motion vector, generating a residual block relating to the current block through a residual data decoding process based on the entropy decoded bit stream, and recovering the current block based on the prediction block and the residual block.

According to an embodiment disclosed in the present specification, a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidate set with respect to a current block may be derived based on a history, the HMVP candidate set may be updated or initialized according to a condition, and motion information of the current block may be derived based on the HMVP candidate set, through which inter prediction efficiency can be improved.

According to an embodiment disclosed in the present specification, a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidate set with respect to a current block may be derived based on a history, the HMVP candidate set may be updated or initialized according to a condition, and motion information of the current block may be derived based on the HMVP candidate set, through which inter prediction efficiency can be improved.

The present disclosure relates to a motion compensation method and module, a chip, an electronic device, and a storage medium, to improve the problem of haloes easily appearing on the edges of moving objects.