A method and encoding unit for encoding a block of pixels into a compressed data structure determines a set of Haar coefficients for a 2×2 quad of pixels of the block of pixels, which set includes a plurality of differential coefficients and an average coefficient. A first portion of the compressed data structure is determined using the differential coefficients and includes a first set of bits which indicates an order of the magnitudes of the differential coefficients, and a second set of bits which indicates a sign and an exponent for each of one or more of the differential coefficients which are non-zero. A second portion of the compressed data structure is determined using the average coefficient determined for the 2×2 quad of pixels. The compressed data structure is stored.

A method and encoding unit for encoding a block of pixels into a compressed data structure determines a set of Haar coefficients for a 2×2 quad of pixels of the block of pixels, which set includes a plurality of differential coefficients and an average coefficient. A first portion of the compressed data structure is determined using the differential coefficients and includes a first set of bits which indicates an order of the magnitudes of the differential coefficients, and a second set of bits which indicates a sign and an exponent for each of one or more of the differential coefficients which are non-zero. A second portion of the compressed data structure is determined using the average coefficient determined for the 2×2 quad of pixels. The compressed data structure is stored.

A video encoding method includes: decoding a target coding unit to obtain a quantization coefficient matrix corresponding to the target coding unit; determining first reference information according to a quantization coefficient in the quantization coefficient matrix; obtaining a value of a target flag bit corresponding to the first reference information, the target flag bit being a flag bit of a target sub-block position, the target sub-block position being a position of a sub-block that requires processing of residual data in a coding unit; and determining the target sub-block position of the target coding unit according to the value of the target flag bit. A flag bit of a sub-block transform position or a transform skip sub-block position in a target coding unit is implicitly indicated using a quantization coefficient in a quantization coefficient matrix corresponding to a coding unit.

A video decoding method, a video encoding method, related devices, and a storage medium are provided. The video decoding method includes: determining a current string to be decoded from a current coding unit of a current image; based on the current string being a unit vector string and the current string including a first pixel, determining a reference pixel of the first pixel from a historical decoding unit in the current image, the historical decoding unit being a decoded coding unit adjacent to the current coding unit in the current image, the reference pixel of the first pixel being adjacent to the first pixel in the current image; and acquiring a predicted value of the first pixel based on a reconstructed value of the reference pixel of the first pixel to obtain a decoded image. may

An apparatus can include a prediction mode decoding module configured to derive a luma intra prediction mode and a chroma intra prediction mode; a prediction size determining module configured to determine a size of a luma transform unit and a size of a chroma transform unit using transform size information; a reference pixel generating module configured to generate referential pixels if at least one reference pixel is unavailable; a reference pixel filtering module configured to adaptively filter the reference pixels of a current luma block based on the luma intra prediction mode and the size of the luma transform unit, and not to filter the reference pixels of a current chroma block; a prediction block generating module configured to generate prediction blocks of the current luma block and the current chroma block; a residual bock generating module configured to generate a luma residual block and a chroma residual block; and an adder.

An apparatus can include a prediction mode decoding module configured to derive a luma intra prediction mode and a chroma intra prediction mode; a prediction size determining module configured to determine a size of a luma transform unit and a size of a chroma transform unit using transform size information; a reference pixel generating module configured to generate referential pixels if at least one reference pixel is unavailable; a reference pixel filtering module configured to adaptively filter the reference pixels of a current luma block based on the luma intra prediction mode and the size of the luma transform unit, and not to filter the reference pixels of a current chroma block; a prediction block generating module configured to generate prediction blocks of the current luma block and the current chroma block; a residual bock generating module configured to generate a luma residual block and a chroma residual block; and an adder.

The disclosure proposes a decoder for decoding coefficients of blocks of a video sequence from a bitstream. The decoder comprises a scan pattern list module for providing one or more pre-defined scan orders, a scan order generator for generating one or more scan orders, a scan order selector for selecting a scan order for each block from the pre-defined and generated scan orders on the basis of scan order information contained in the bitstream, a decoding module for decoding one or more coefficient vectors of each block from the bitstream, a deserializer for inverse scanning, for each block, the one or more coefficient vectors of that block according to the scan order selected for that block so as to obtain a coefficient matrix. The scan order generator generates the one or more scan orders depending on one or more previously obtained coefficient matrices of blocks of the video sequence.

The disclosure proposes a decoder for decoding coefficients of blocks of a video sequence from a bitstream. The decoder comprises a scan pattern list module for providing one or more pre-defined scan orders, a scan order generator for generating one or more scan orders, a scan order selector for selecting a scan order for each block from the pre-defined and generated scan orders on the basis of scan order information contained in the bitstream, a decoding module for decoding one or more coefficient vectors of each block from the bitstream, a deserializer for inverse scanning, for each block, the one or more coefficient vectors of that block according to the scan order selected for that block so as to obtain a coefficient matrix. The scan order generator generates the one or more scan orders depending on one or more previously obtained coefficient matrices of blocks of the video sequence.

A method, apparatus or system for processing video information can involve determining at least one Rice parameter associated with a transform residual coding process applied during encoding of a block of picture information, wherein the Rice parameter is a fixed value, or is determined based on, for example, a frequency region or a coefficient scanning position for the transform residual coding, or a number of neighbors of the block of picture information, and encoding or decoding the block of picture information based on the at least one Rice parameter.

A method of decoding a coding unit from a coding tree unit of an image frame from a video bitstream. The method comprises determining a scan pattern for a transform block the scan pattern progressing from a current collection to a next collection of the plurality of collections after completing scanning of the current collection; decoding residual coefficients from the video bitstream according to the scan pattern; determining a multiple transform selection index for the coding unit, decoding the multiple transform selection index from the video bitstream if a last significant coefficient encountered along the scan pattern is at or within a threshold cartesian location of the transform block, and determining the multiple transform selection index to indicate that multiple transform selection is not used if the last significant residual coefficient position of the transform block along the scan pattern outside the threshold location; and transforming the decoded residual coefficients.