JVET-AD0183 Non-EE2: SIF flag and BCW weight usage in OBMC [A. Robert, F. Galpin, T. Poirier, Y. Chen (InterDigital)]

This contribution proposes to consider the SIF flags and BCW weights of the neighbouring and current CUs into the OBMC process.

It is reported that this proposal achieves averagely, on top of ECM-8.0, -0.05% BD rate saving in RA and -0.08% BD rate saving in LDB without any encoding and decoding runtime increase.

Several experts expressed opinion that the proposal has interesting aspects and a reasonable tradeoff.

It was agreed to investigate this in an EE