METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AFFINE MERGE MODE PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING SYSTEM

摘要

Methods and apparatus of Inter prediction including an affine Merge mode are disclosed. In one method, motion vectors associated with a set of neighbouring blocks of the current block are determined and used to generate a unified Merge candidate list. If the motion vector exists for a given neighbouring block belonging to the set of neighbouring blocks of the current block, the motion vector associated with the given neighbouring block is included in the unified Merge candidate list regardless of whether the given neighbouring block is coded using a regular mode or an affine mode. In another method, various new affine Merge candidates are disclosed, which includes a method uses temporal affine Merge candidate, a method uses previous N affine coded block and a method using global affine parameters. A Merge candidate list uses a set of decoder-side derived motion vectors is also disclosed.