FIELD: physics.
SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a method of coding video data. The method includes a step of coding syntax elements of a set of parameters which identify candidate long-term reference pictures. One or more of the candidate long-term reference pictures belong to a reference picture set of a current picture, and one or more of the candidate long-term reference pictures do not belong to the reference picture set of the current picture. The reference picture set identifies reference pictures that can potentially be used for inter-predicting the current picture and can potentially be used for inter-predicting one or more pictures following the current picture in decoding order. Further, the method includes coding syntax elements that indicate which candidate long-term reference pictures, identified in the parameter set, belong to the reference picture set of the current picture.
EFFECT: high efficiency of encoding images by providing simple initialisation of a list of reference pictures.
37 cl, 10 dwg, 8 tbl
