Method and device for encoding video data

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method for encoding a video sequence, comprising the following steps by a processing unit of an encoding device: splitting a digital image from the video sequence into blocks of values; for each block: transforming the values of the block into transform coefficients; organizing these transform coefficients into several sets of transform coefficients; quantizing the transform coefficients into quantized coefficients; encoding the block using the quantized coefficients; encoding the video sequence based on the encoding of the blocks; wherein the quantizing step further comprises for quantized coefficients corresponding to one set of transform coefficients: comparing a sum value representing a result of summing magnitudes of the quantized coefficient values with a threshold, the threshold depending on the number of the summed quantized coefficients, the quantized coefficient magnitudes being comprised within a predefined range; and setting the quantized coefficients to zero if the summing result is below the threshold.

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