Research Article

An Effective Transform Unit Size Decision Method for High Efficiency Video Coding

Table 5

Candidate depth levels for each RQT type.

RQT typeDepthpredDepth range
depthmin, depthmax
TU size

Type 0Depthpred ≤ 1 32 × 32
Type 11 < depthpred ≤ 1.5 32 × 32~16 × 16
Type 21.5 < depthpred ≤ 2.5 32 × 32~8 × 8
Type 32.5 < depthpred ≤ 3.5 16 × 16~4 × 4
Type 4Depthpred > 3.5 8 × 8~4 × 4