US Patent 11178399 Probability initialization for video coding

An example method for entropy decoding of video data includes retrieving a pre-defined initialization value for a context of a plurality of contexts used in a context-adaptive entropy coding process to entropy code a value for a syntax element for an independently codable unit of video data; determining, based on the pre-defined initialization value and in a linear domain, an initial probability state of the context; and entropy decoding, from a bitstream and based on the initial probability state of the context, a bin of the value for the syntax element.