Fast CTU Partition Decision Algorithm for VVC Intra and Inter Coding

Abstract

Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is a new video compression standard. Compared to the quadtree structure in HEVC, VVC introduces a quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT) by adding binary and ternary tree partition structure, which achieves great coding performance at the expense of obviously increased computational complexity. In order to make a better trade-off between encoder complexity and coding efficiency, we propose a fast block partition algorithm for both intra coding and inter coding. For intra coding, the block-level based Canny edge detector is applied to extract edge features to skip vertical or horizonal partition modes and carry out early termination. For inter coding, the three frame difference method is used to determine whether the current block is a moving object and partition can be early terminated. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces about 36% and 31% encoding time on average for intra and inter coding respectively with an ignorable increase in BD-rate.