Accelerating HEVC Intra Partitioning via a CNN-Hierarchical Attention Transformer Hybrid

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29063v1
• Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 20:10:22 GMT
• Title: Accelerating HEVC Intra Partitioning via a CNN-Hierarchical Attention Transformer Hybrid
• Abstract summary: Hybrid Fast Vision Transformer (HFViT) is a hybrid architecture designed to accelerate HEVC intra-mode partition prediction.<n>On standard JCT-VC test sequences, HFViT reduces the average VMAF BD-rate penalty by 2.4, 2.6, and 7.9 percentage points.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The recursive quad-tree partitioning in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) incurs considerable computational overhead, with exhaustive rate-distortion optimization for CTU partition prediction consuming the dominant share of encoding time. Although partition prediction through deep learning has emerged as a viable encoding accelerator, an architectural dichotomy remains largely unaddressed: CNNs are computationally efficient but spatially myopic due to their localized effective receptive fields, failing to capture long range semantic relationships and repetitive textures; conversely, transformer based architectures are better at capturing global context but incur prohibitive CPU latency, a critical liability that impedes deployment which is predominantly CPU-bound. This paper introduces Hybrid Fast Vision Transformer (HFViT), a hybrid architecture designed to accelerate HEVC intra-mode partition prediction. HFViT fuses a reparameterized depthwise-separable convolutional backbone with a Hierarchical Attention Transformer (HAT) mechanism, leveraging a carrier token scheme to enable efficient global information propagation at sub-quadratic complexity. Post-training structural fusion collapses batch normalization into preceding layers to further reduce latency. Comprehensive evaluation reveals the efficacy of HFViT in accelerating HEVC intra-encoding across resolutions. On standard JCT-VC test sequences, HFViT reduces the average VMAF BD-rate penalty by 2.4, 2.6, and 7.9 percentage points on Classes A, B and E, respectively, as compared to the competing ETH-CNN baseline while maintaining CPU inference latency within 8% of the CNN baseline and surpassing it on GPU by 40%, establishing practical viability for real-time encoder integration.

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