Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system, a method for controlling an emitting power level in the optical sensing system, and a control apparatus for controlling the emitting power level in the optical sensing system. The exemplary optical sensing system includes a transmitter configured to emit light beams at a plurality of vertical detection angles to scan an object. The optical sensing system further includes a controller configured to dynamically vary an emitting power level of the light beams emitted at the respective vertical detection angles. The optical sensing system also includes a receiver configured to detect the light beams returned by the object.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of Inter prediction for video coding using Multi-hypothesis (MH) are disclosed. If an MH mode is used for the current block: at least one MH candidate is derived using reduced reference data by adjusting at least one coding-control setting; an Inter candidate list is generated, where the Inter candidate list comprises said at least one MH candidate; and current motion information associated with the current block is encoded using the Inter candidate list at the video encoder side or the current motion information associated with the current block is decoded at the video decoder side using the Merge candidate list. The coding control setting may correspond to prediction direction setting, filter tap setting, block size of reference block to be fetched, reference picture setting or motion limitation setting.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of video processing for a video coding system using Neural Network (NN) are disclosed. According to this method, a shifted region is determined for the filter region to avoid unavailable reconstructed or filtered-reconstructed video data for the NN processing of the filter region, where boundaries of the shifted region comprises region boundaries derived by shifting target boundaries upward, leftward, or both upward and leftward, and wherein the target boundaries correspond to one or more top boundaries and one or more left boundaries of target processing region including the current block and one or more remaining un-processed blocks. According to another method, the areas outside boundaries of pictures, slices, tiles, or tile groups are padded. In yet another method, a flag is used to indicate whether the NN processing is allowed to cross a boundary between two slices, two tiles or two tile groups.

Abstract: A method for signaling scaling matrices for transform coefficient quantization is provided. A decoder receives data from a bitstream to be decoded as a current picture of a video, the current picture to be decoded by using a plurality of scaling matrices. The decoder receives a reference index offset for a first scaling matrix of the plurality of scaling matrices. The decoder applies the reference index offset to a first index identifying the first scaling matrix to derive a second index identifying a second scaling matrix of the plurality of scaling matrices. The second scaling matrix is previously reconstructed. The decoder reconstructs the first scaling matrix by referencing the second scaling matrix. The decoder dequantizes transform coefficients of transform blocks of the current picture by using the plurality of scaling matrices and reconstructs the current picture by using the dequantized transform coefficients.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of prediction for video coding using MH (Multiple Hypothesis) mode are disclosed. According to this method, a block is partitioned into a first partition and a second partition. A first candidate and a second candidate are derived for the first and second partitions respectively. At least one of the first candidate and the second candidate is derived using a candidate list derived for a regular Merge mode (or also called as normal Merge mode). An MH prediction generated by blending a first prediction corresponding to a first candidate and a second prediction corresponding to a second candidate, and the MH prediction is applied to a part of the current block.

Abstract: Video processing methods and apparatuses for coding a current block generate a final predictor by combining multiple predictors for the current block. A first predictor and a second predictor for the current block are generated by applying one or a combination of settings to the first, second, or both predictors. One or both the first and second predictors are generated from motion compensation. The final predictor is derived from the first and second predictors, and the current block is encoded or decoded according to the final predictor. The settings include supported-mode setting, combined-weight setting, applied-portion setting, motion information setting, precision setting, or a combination of the above settings.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for cross-colour loop-filter processing of reconstructed video are disclosed. According to one method, a sum of filter coefficients for each of one or more candidate cross-colour loop filters is constrained to be a fixed value. One or more syntax elements indicating a value related to a total number of candidate filters in a filter set are signalled or parsed in the APS (Adaptation Parameter Set).

Abstract: Video data processing methods and apparatuses comprise receiving input data associated with a current chroma block, determine a luma Quantization Parameter (QP) of a collocated luma block, reuse the luma QP of the collocated luma block to derive a chroma QP for the current chroma block, and encode or decode one or more Transform Units (TUs) associated with the current chroma block using the chroma QP. The collocated luma block is a block that covers a collocated sample of one predefined sample of the current chroma block, and an example of the predefined sample is a center sample of the current chroma block. The input video data is partitioned according to two separate Coding Unit (CU) partitioning structures for luma and chroma components when dual tree coding is enabled.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of video coding incorporating Deep Neural Network are disclosed. A target signal is processed using DNN (Deep Neural Network), where the target signal provided to DNN input corresponds to the reconstructed residual, output from the prediction process, the reconstruction process, one or more filtering processes, or a combination of them. The output data from DNN output is provided for the encoding process or the decoding process. The DNN can be used to restore pixel values of the target signal or to predict a sign of one or more residual pixels between the target signal and an original signal. An absolute value of one or more residual pixels can be signalled in the video bitstream and used with the sign to reduce residual error of the target signal.

Abstract: A base stock having at least 90 wt. % saturates, an amount and distribution of aromatics, as determined by ultra violet (UV) spectroscopy, including an absorptivity between 280 and 320 nm of less than 0.015 l/gm-cm, a viscosity index (VI) from 80 to 120, and having a cycloparaffin performance ratio greater than 1.05 and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. between 4 and 6 cSt. A base stock having at least 90 wt. % saturates, an amount and distribution of aromatics, as determined by UV spectroscopy, including an absorptivity between 280 and 320 nm of less than 0.020 l/gm-cm, a viscosity index (VI) from 80 to 120, and having a cycloparaffin performance ratio greater than 1.05 and a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. between 10 and 14 cSt. A lubricating oil having the base stock as a major component, and one or more additives as a minor component. Methods for improving oxidation performance and low temperature performance of formulated lubricant compositions through the compositionally advantaged base stock.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus of motion compensation using the bi-directional optical flow (BIO) techniques are disclosed. According to one method of the present invention, the BIO process is applied to encode or decode bi-directional current block in Merge mode only or in AMVP (advanced motion vector prediction) mode only. According to another method, the BIO process conditionally to encode or decode the current block depending on a jointly-coded flag if the current block is coded using a bi-prediction mode. According to yet another method, x-offset value vx and y-offset value vy for the current block are added to the current motion vector to form a final motion vector. The final motion vector is then used as a reference motion vector for following blocks. In still yet another method, the BIO process is applied to the chroma component.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of video coding operate by receiving input data associated with a current data unit in a current picture, wherein the current data unit includes a luma component and a chroma component and the current data unit includes a luma data unit and a chroma data unit. The operation proceeds by splitting the luma data unit and the Chroma data unit using one shared tree until the luma data unit and the chroma data unit reach a stop node, encoding or decoding the stop node as a leaf CU (coding unit) if the stop node is greater than M×N for the luma component, M and N are positive integers, and signalling or parsing a prediction mode for the stop node if the stop node is smaller than or equal to M×N for the luma component.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for in-loop processing of reconstructed video are disclosed. According to one method, a virtual boundary is determined for to-be-processed pixels in the current picture, where the virtual boundary is aligned with block boundaries and at least one to-be-processed pixel on a first side of the virtual boundary requires one or more second pixels on a second side of the virtual boundary. According to the method, the in-loop processing is modified if a target to-be-processed pixel requires at least one second pixel from the second side of the virtual boundary and the modified in-loop processing eliminates the need for any second pixel on the second side of the virtual boundary. According to another method, the operations of block classification are changed when part of the required pixels in one 10×10 window used in classification are at the other side of virtual boundaries.

Abstract: Video processing methods and apparatuses for coding a current block comprise receiving input data of a current block, splitting the current block into sub-blocks, deriving motion information for the sub-blocks, performing motion compensation for the sub-blocks using the motion information to derive a final predictor, deriving and storing a representative motion vector for each grid in the current block, and encoding or decoding the current block using the final predictor. The representative motion vector for grids in a weighted area is determined by combining the motion vectors of the sub-blocks if the motion vectors of the sub-blocks are in different lists. The representative motion vector for grids in the weighted area is determined as one of the motion vectors of the sub-blocks if the motion vectors of the sub-blocks are in the same list.

Abstract: A prediction method and apparatus for video coding include a set of Merge candidates having an MMVD (Merge mode with motion vector differences (MVD)) candidate are generated. When the current block has a block size belonging to at least one default block size, whether a target candidate in the set of Merge candidates is bi-prediction is determined after the set of Merge candidates is generated. If the target candidate is bi-prediction: the target candidate is replaced by a uni-prediction candidate; the uni-prediction candidate is included in the set of Merge candidates to generate a modified set of Merge candidates; and current motion information associated with the current block is encoded using the modified set of Merge candidates at the video encoder side or the current motion information associated with the current block is decoded at the video decoder side using the modified set of Merge candidates.

Abstract: Exemplary video processing methods and apparatuses for coding a current block. One implementation operates by receiving input video data associated with a current block in a current picture; determining one or more Motion Vectors (MVs) for generating an OBMC region; generating one or more converted MVs by changing said one or more MVs to one or more integer MVs or changing a MV component of said one or more MVs to an integer component; deriving the OBMC region by motion compensation using said one or more converted MVs; applying OBMC by blending an OBMC predictor in the OBMC region with an original predictor; and encoding or decoding the current block.

Abstract: A video processing method comprises receiving input data of a current block, checking if the current block satisfies one or more predefined criteria, setting the current block to be a root block if the current block satisfies the predefined criteria, one or more color components of one or more blocks in the current block are not checked with the predefined criteria if the current block is a root block, encoding or decoding the one or more color components of one or more blocks in the current block using neighboring reconstructed samples of the one or more color components of the current block as reference samples if the current block is a root block. Each block in the current block is encoded or decoded using neighboring reconstructed samples of each block in the current block as reference samples if the current block is not a root block.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for constrained de-blocking filter are disclosed. According to one method, if a CU is partitioned into multiple sub-CUs, the de-blocking process is also applied to the sub-block boundaries inside the current filtered-reconstructed block. According to another method, if first reference samples used for the de-blocking process of a first boundary are to be modified by the de-blocking process of a second boundary, the first reference samples are replaced by padding samples that are not to be modified by the de-blocking process of the second boundary. According to yet another method, the de-blocking process is applied to a reconstructed block corresponding to a current block to result in a current filtered-reconstructed block regardless whether a boundary of the current block corresponds to an 8×8 sample grid boundaries.

Abstract: A method and apparatus Inter prediction for video coding including IBC (Intra Block Copy) coding tool are disclosed. According to one method, a current permitted band inside the current picture for the current block is identified. A target IBC candidate is selected, where a target block vector of the target IBC candidate points from the current block to a target reference block in the current picture. An adjusted candidate list is generated by taking into account of the target IBC candidate and the current permitted band. The current motion information associated with the current block is encoded using the adjusted candidate list at the video encoder side or decoded using the adjusted candidate list at the video decoder side using the adjusted candidate list. In another method, a syntax for a target MVD (Motion Vector Difference) is decoded without sign information or with reduced sign information of the target MVD.

Abstract: According to a method for Adaptive Loop Filter (ALF) processing of reconstructed video, multiple indicators are signaled in slice at an encoder side or parsed at a decoder side, where the multiple indicators are Adaptive Parameter Set (APS) indices associated with temporal ALF filter sets for the ALF processing. A current indicator is determined from the multiple indicators, where the current indicator is used to select a current ALF filter set. Filtered-reconstructed pixels are derived for the current block by applying the current ALF filter to the current block. In another method, if the ALF processing applied at a target sample requires an outside sample on other side of a target virtual boundary from the target sample, the outside sample is replaced by a padded sample.