The Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) has started to develop the next-generation video coding standard-H.266/Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC) based on H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC) to provide higher compression performance. The H.266/VVC supports the flexible quadtree with a nested multi-type tree (QTMT) partition structure including quadtree (QT), binary tree (BT), and ternary tree (TT). The coding unit (CU) sizes range from 128 to 4 for the luma component or from 64 to 2 for the chroma component in the QTMT splitting structure. The introduction of small CU size, i.e., 2×N, leads to inefficient hardware implementation because it causes pipeline delayed and needs to process 2×N pixels in the hardware architecture. In addition, the inter or bi-predicted of small CU requires a higher memory bandwidth than the bi-predicted of 8×8 CU in H.266/VVC. To solve the above issues, we introduce a fast method to accelerate CU partition and mode decision, including an adaptive CU partition method and early skip mode detection method. The proposed algorithm consists of two parts: (1) adaptive remove 2×N CUs by skipping BT and TT splitting mode; (2) early skip bi-predicted or inter prediction of small CU. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can save 47% coding time while maintaining the coding performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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