隨著處理器效能提升以及第五代行動通訊高速網路的普及，多媒體通訊技術及串流服務品質也大幅提高，為了提供高畫質視訊通訊服務，相關的儲存空間及網路頻寬成本也增加，
其中高畫質視訊壓縮效率關係到應用效能和成本。最新的視訊壓縮標準H.266/VVC(Versatile Video Coding)與前一代H.265/HEVC(High-Efficiency Video Coding)相比較，
其編碼位元率可降低30\%至50\%。VVC主要改進技術為採用高適應能力的QTMT 編碼模式，CU的劃分形狀不只侷限於正方形，以及VVC 於幀間預測模式之進化，
如仿射運動模式、幾何劃分模式以及運動向量的精度提升等等。但這些改進方法也造成幀間編碼(Inter Coding)運算複雜度的巨增，其處理時間約提高9.5倍。
因此，本論文研究VVC幀間編碼架構下之快速編碼決策的演算法，我們提出快速劃分決策以及背景區塊快速識別方法:
(1) 快速劃分決策利用卷積神經網路預測當前編碼區塊(Coding Unit, CU) 合適的多分樹(MT) 劃分模式，並只選擇測試預測的多分樹劃分模式，
以有效省去窮舉搜尋率失真最佳(Rate-Distortion Optimization, RDO) 模式所需的巨量運算;
(2) 背景區塊快速識別決策利用統計方法找出VVC 運動補償功能與畫面中靜態區域的關聯性，以此判定當前區域是否只進行不劃分測試。此外也利用上層CU 與當前CU 運動估測/補償的關聯性，
統計出當前背景區塊是否適合對仿射運動估測進行加速，以求達到整體加速編碼的目的。本研究提出之方法與VVC17.0 標準預設編碼相比，在幀間編碼Random Access模式下，可以降低約36.91\% 的編碼時間，
而BDBR 僅上升1.93\%。此外若加入仿射運動估測的加速，整體可節省約39.26\% 的編碼時間，而BDBR上升2.23\%。

With the evolution of computing performance and high-speed network(5G), multimedia quality has been highly improved.
The high-speed processor and communication technologies enable high-quality multimedia communication and applications.
To provide high-resolution video consumption, it has to pay higher storage and network costs.
To make practical applications feasible, the efficiency of video compression technology dominates the performance and costs.
The newest video coding standard, H.266/VVC(Versatile Video Coding) can reduce 30\% to 50\% of bitrates as compared to the previous counterpart,
H.265/HEVC(High-Efficient Video Coding). The major innovative technologies of VVC comprise:
(1) It adopts a QTMT coding mode that enables the coder to partition a CU not limited to square blocks;
(2) it utilizes affine motion estimation(AME), geometry partitioning mode(GPM) and 1/16 motion vector precision to improve the inter-frame coding efficiency.
However, it requires 9.5 times higher time complexity to achieve higher inter-frame coding performance.
In this research, we study how to reduce the time complexity by designing a fast partition mode prediction method and a fast background region identification method:
(1) A convolutional neural network has been designed to predict the QTMT partition type of a CU to eliminate the exhaustive rate-distortion optimization (RDO) search operations;
(2) We designed a heuristic background block identification method that analyzes the relationship between background
region contents and inter-frame motion compensation type so that we can quickly determine whether split or not for a CU.
In addition, the proposed fast AME also analyzed the ME/MC correlations between background
CUs and their parent CUs to determine whether to utilize affine ME to speed up the coding process.
Experiments showed that the proposed fast encoding algorithm (without fast AME) can reduce 36.91\% encoding time,
with only 1.93\% BDBR loss as compared to default VTM17.0.
The system can achieve 39.26\% time reduction under 2.23\% of BDBR loss when enables the fast AME mode.

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