Enhancement for Versatile Video Coding in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Scenarios

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) allows infor-mation exchange between vehicles. In VANET, video is the most recommended medium for transmitting information. However, the characteristics of VANET and the requirements of video content in terms of quality have resulted in various challenges. Besides, the movements of vehicles introduce complex motions in videos, making them more difficult to compress. As a result, it is a challenging task to transmit as less bits of video streams as possible while maintaining their visual quality. Therefore, we analyze Affine Motion Estimation (AME), a new coding tool in the latest generation video coding standard H.266NV C. Subsequently, a fast algorithm is proposed to make it able to describe complex motions such as rotation, zoom, shear, etc but also with low complexity. Experimental results show that the algorithm reduces the encoding complexity of AME by 20.19% and the overall encoding complexity by 3.25% compared to anchor VTM21.0, with eligible coding performance loss under Random Access (RA) configurations.