Deblocking filter with two separate modes in block-based video coding

Sung Deuk Kim; Jaeyoun Yi; Jong Beom Ra

doi:10.1117/12.298335

9 January 1998 Deblocking filter with two separate modes in block-based video coding

Sung Deuk Kim, Jaeyoun Yi, Jong Beom Ra

Proceedings Volume 3309, Visual Communications and Image Processing '98; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298335
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a method to remove blocking artifacts in low bit-rate block-based video coding. The proposed algorithm has two separate filtering modes, which are selected by pixel behavior around the block boundary. In each mode, proper 1D filtering operations are performed across the block boundary along horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. In the first mode corresponding flat regions, a strong filter is applied inside the block as well as on the block boundary, because the flat regions are more sensitive to the human vidual system and the artifacts propagated from the previous frame due to motion compensation are distributed inside the block. In the second mode corresponding to other regions, a sophisticated smoothing filter, which is based on the frequency information around block boundaries, is used to reduce blocking artifacts adaptively without introducing undesired blur. Even though the proposed deblocking filter is quite simple, it improves both subjective and objective image quality for various image features.

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Sung Deuk Kim, Jaeyoun Yi, and Jong Beom Ra "Deblocking filter with two separate modes in block-based video coding", Proc. SPIE 3309, Visual Communications and Image Processing '98, (9 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298335

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