An apparatus for intra prediction of a current video coding block of a frame of a video signal, the current video coding block comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel associated with a pixel value, the apparatus comprising: a reference pixel unit configured to generate on the basis of a plurality of primary reference pixel values a plurality of secondary reference pixel values, wherein the plurality of primary reference pixel values are associated with a plurality of primary reference pixels located in neighboring video coding blocks of the current video coding block and wherein the plurality of secondary reference pixel values are associated with a plurality of secondary reference pixels located in further neighboring video coding blocks of the current video coding block opposite the primary reference pixels, wherein the reference pixel unit is configured to generate each of the secondary reference pixel values on the basis of two or more of the primary reference pixel values by the reference pixel unit being configured to firstly determine secondary pixel values of a first and second secondary reference pixel wherein the first and the second secondary reference pixels are those secondary reference pixels that are adjacent to the primary reference pixels, the first secondary reference pixel being the left-most pixel in the bottom row below the currently processed video block and the second secondary reference pixel being the top pixel in the column on the right hand side of the currently processed video block, and secondly, to determine the secondary pixel values of the other secondary reference pixels in the bottom row and the column on the right hand side of the currently processed block by linear interpolation using said first and second secondary reference pixel values; and an intra prediction unit configured to intra predict the pixel values of the pixels of the current video coding block on the basis of the plurality of primary reference pixel values and the plurality of secondary reference pixel values. a reference pixel unit configured to generate on the basis of a plurality of primary reference pixel values a plurality of secondary reference pixel values, wherein the plurality of primary reference pixel values are associated with a plurality of primary reference pixels located in neighboring video coding blocks of the current video coding block and wherein the plurality of secondary reference pixel values are associated with a plurality of secondary reference pixels located in further neighboring video coding blocks of the current video coding block opposite the primary reference pixels, wherein the reference pixel unit is configured to generate each of the secondary reference pixel values on the basis of two or more of the primary reference pixel values by the reference pixel unit being configured to firstly determine secondary pixel values of a first and second secondary reference pixel wherein the first and the second secondary reference pixels are those secondary reference pixels that are adjacent to the primary reference pixels, the first secondary reference pixel being the left-most pixel in the bottom row below the currently processed video block and the second secondary reference pixel being the top pixel in the column on the right hand side of the currently processed video block, and secondly, to determine the secondary pixel values of the other secondary reference pixels in the bottom row and the column on the right hand side of the currently processed block by linear interpolation using said first and second secondary reference pixel values; and to firstly determine secondary pixel values of a first and second secondary reference pixel wherein the first and the second secondary reference pixels are those secondary reference pixels that are adjacent to the primary reference pixels, the first secondary reference pixel being the left-most pixel in the bottom row below the currently processed video block and the second secondary reference pixel being the top pixel in the column on the right hand side of the currently processed video block, and secondly, to determine the secondary pixel values of the other secondary reference pixels in the bottom row and the column on the right hand side of the currently processed block by linear interpolation using said first and second secondary reference pixel values; and an intra prediction unit configured to intra predict the pixel values of the pixels of the current video coding block on the basis of the plurality of primary reference pixel values and the plurality of secondary reference pixel values.