Abstract: Provided is a monitoring apparatus including a communication unit which receives streaming data and metadata of a video from each of a plurality of cameras installed indoors when the cameras obtain videos by capturing specific areas, respectively; a metadata analysis unit which analyzes the received metadata and extracts information about an event that occurred; a video selection unit which selects a video containing an area in which the event occurred from the videos based on the extracted information about the event; and a screen unit which receives the selected video from the video selection unit and immediately displays the received video when the monitoring apparatus is operated.

Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring syntax elements for a first transform coefficient through an n-th transform coefficient of a current block, wherein the syntax elements are syntax elements according to a first residual data coding structure of TSRC; and acquiring syntax elements for an n+1st transform coefficient through a last transform coefficient of the current block, wherein the syntax elements are syntax elements according to a second residual data coding structure of the TSRC, wherein the number of context-coded syntax elements for the first transform coefficient through the n-th transform coefficient is equal to the maximum number of context-coded bins of the current block, and the syntax elements according to the second residual data coding structure include coefficient level information and a sign flag for a transform coefficient.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a controller coupled to a stereoscopic image viewer. The stereoscopic image viewer includes a viewing lens, an image capture unit, and a plurality of light sources. The image capture unit is configured to capture image frames. The controller receives the captured image frames. The controller is configured to switch light output from one of the plurality of light sources to another one of the plurality of light sources if a corneal reflection in a captured image frame intersects a fixed reflection in the captured image frame.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to video coding and picture partitioning methods. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with relations between partition constraint elements, by setting partitioning rules for different picture partitioning methods. The disclosure provides devices and corresponding methods for generating or processing a bitstream including encoded pictures, particularly for setting and including partition constraint element into the bitstream. One of the devices is configured to determine a minimum luma size of a leaf block resulting from quadtree splitting (MinQtSizeY), determine a maximum luma size of a coding block where partitioning using a binary tree splitting is allowed (MaxBtSizeY) based on the MinQtSizeY, and include information for the determined MinQtSizeY into the bitstream.

Abstract: A road management device comprises an arithmetic section that performs a certain analysis on a road using information acquired by a moving body (a vehicle) moving along the road. The arithmetic section performs the certain analysis on the road in a first time slot using first information acquired by a first moving body of a first kind, and performs the certain analysis on the road in a second time slot using second information acquired by a second moving body of a second kind.

Abstract: Block-based coding of a picture is done by providing an intra-prediction coding concept according to which a certain block of the picture is intra-prediction coded using a certain intra-coding mode by partitioning the predetermined block into partitions which are, for reconstruction purposes, sequentially subject to spatial prediction using the intra-prediction coding mode signaled for the certain block followed by correcting the thus obtained predictor using a prediction residual so that for preceding partitions a reconstruction of the samples is available to the decoder at the time of processing the next, then current, partition.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating and displaying a 3D representation of a portion an intraoral scene is provided. The method includes determining 3D point cloud data representing a part of an intraoral scene in a point cloud coordinate space. A colour image of the same part of the intraoral scene is acquired in camera coordinate space. The colour image elements are labelled that are within a region of the image representing a surface of said intraoral scene, which should preferably not be included in said 3D representation. A labelled and applicably transformed colour image is then mapped onto the 3D point cloud data, whereby the 3D point cloud data points that map onto labelled colour image elements are removed or filtered out. A 3D representation is generated from said filtered 3D point cloud data, which does not include any of the surfaces represented by the labelled colour image elements.

Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block; deriving reference samples located around the current block; generating a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode and the reference samples; and generating residual samples for the current block on the basis of the prediction sample, wherein the step of generating the prediction sample for the current block may comprise the steps of: deriving an interpolation filter, which is to be applied to the reference sample, on the basis of the prediction mode of the current block or the size of the current block; and generating the prediction sample by applying the derived interpolation filter to the reference sample.

Abstract: Method and apparatus of coding a video sequence are disclosed, wherein Reference Picture Resampling (RPR) mode is included as a coding tool. According to the method, a bitstream corresponding to encoded data of the video sequence is generated or received, where the bitstream includes one or more syntaxes related to the RPR mode when the RPR mode is enabled, and scaling information for the RPR mode is derived using first information including said one or more syntaxes, and wherein said one or more syntaxes are constrained by taking into account a value corresponding to Max(8, (minimum coding block size for a luma component)). A target picture of the video sequence is encoded or decoded utilizing the scaling information when the RPR mode is enabled for the target picture.

Abstract: The disclosure relates a display apparatus comprising: a signal input receiver receives a plurality of signals which are different in kind from each other, a plurality of encoders provided respectively corresponding to the plurality of signals, and perform encoding of a corresponding mode according to the kinds of at least one signal input to the signal input receiver among the plurality of signals, a first interface transmits a signal obtained by serializing the encoded signal, a second interface deserializes the signal received from the first interface, a plurality of decoders provided respectively corresponding to the plurality of encoders, and perform decoding and restoring the deserialized signal into the at least one signal, and a display displays an image based on the at least one restored signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for performing encoding and decoding using a variably-sized quantization coefficient group, in quantization coefficient group encoding and decoding of video compression technology.

Abstract: A video decoding apparatus is provided for decoding pictures using inter-prediction. The video decoding apparatus includes a predictor that generates affine prediction samples for respective subblocks in a target block in a current picture to be decoded by performing affine motion prediction on a subblock-by-subblock basis using control point motion vectors which respectively correspond to corners of the target block. The predictor also modifies sample values of the affine prediction samples by executing a first coding tool, the first coding tool compensating for motion according to sample positions in each of the subblocks using the control point motion vectors.

Abstract: A method for encoding a video sequence is provided that includes entropy encoding syntax elements representative of transform coefficients generated as the video sequence is processed, wherein entropy encoding syntax elements representative of a transform coefficient includes binarizing the syntax elements representative of the transform coefficient to generate a plurality of binary symbols (bins), coding a portion of the plurality of bins in context coding mode, and coding a remaining portion of the plurality of bins in bypass coding mode. The method further includes reducing the number of bins that are coded in context coding mode for each transform coefficient in a plurality of subsequent transform coefficients that are entropy encoded after a specified number of transform coefficients have been entropy encoded.

Abstract: A method of visual processing includes determining, during a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, whether there is a switch from a first residual coding technique to a second residual coding technique based on a number of context coded bins per unit used in the first residual coding technique. The unit is included in the block, and coefficients of the unit are coded in the bitstream representation in multiple passes. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods that allow a user to capture images at low- and high-level magnification and then overlay the high-level magnification images on the low-level magnification image to ease review of the images. The high-level magnification images may be overlaid on the low-level magnification image based at least in part on the portion of the low-level magnification image from which the high-level image was originated.

Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, an ID value of an LMCS APS may be within a predetermined range. Thus, an LMCS procedure can be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS is reduced. Since the performance of LMCS is improved, efficiency of video/image coding may increase.

Abstract: Methods and devices are provided to encode and decode a data stream carrying data representative of a three-dimensional scene, the data stream comprising color pictures packed in a color image; depth pictures packed in a depth image; and a set of patch data items comprising de-projection data; data for retrieving a color picture in the color image and geometry data. Two types of geometry data are possible. The first type of data describes how to retrieve a depth picture in the depth image. The second type of data comprises an identifier of a 3D mesh. Vertex coordinates and faces of this mesh are used to retrieve the location of points in the de-projected scene.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for decoding a video including determining a coding unit to be decoded by block partitioning, decoding prediction syntaxes for the coding unit, the prediction syntaxes including a skip flag indicating whether the coding unit is encoded in a skip mode, after the decoding of the prediction syntaxes, decoding transform syntaxes including a transformation/quantization skip flag and a coding unit cbf, wherein the transformation/quantization skip flag indicates whether inverse transformation, inverse quantization, and at least part of in-loop filterings are skipped, and the coding unit cbf indicates whether all coefficients in a luma block and two chroma blocks constituting the coding unit are zero, and reconstructing the coding unit based on the prediction syntaxes and the transform syntaxes.

Abstract: A method of decoding a video sequence coded with subpictures can include receiving a first syntax element corresponding to a coding tree unit (CTU) size in a bitstream at a decoder, receiving a second syntax element corresponding to whether a picture being partitioned into subpictures, in response to the second syntax element indicating the picture is partitioned into the subpictures, receiving third syntax elements indicating a position and a size of each of the subpictures in the picture based on a unit of the CTU size, and reconstructing one or more of the subpictures based on the position and the size of each of the respective subpictures in the picture.

Abstract: Disclosed are an intra prediction method of a chrominance block using a luminance sample and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method comprises the steps of: calculating an intra prediction mode of a chrominance block on the basis of an LM mapping table when the chrominance block uses an LM; and generating a prediction block for the chrominance block on the basis of the calculated intra prediction mode of the chrominance block. When intra prediction mode information of chrominance blocks are decoded, mutually different tables are used depending on whether or not an LM is used, so that encoding and decoding can be performed without an unnecessary waste of bits.