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The Filtering Method to Reduce Corner Outlier Artifacts in HEVC

Corner Outlier Artifacts를 감소시키기 위한 HEVC 필터링 방법

  • Received : 2017.03.06
  • Accepted : 2017.04.27
  • Published : 2017.05.30

Abstract

The In-loop filtering methods such as de-blocking filter and SAO(Sample Adaptive Offset) applied to the HEVC standard achieves coding efficiency and subjective quality improvement by reducing the blocking artifacts and the ringing artifacts. However, despite the use of In-loop filtering methods, the artifacts called a corner outlier occurring at the corner points of block boundaries are not removed. In this paper, the corner outlier artifacts are reduced by the detection, determination, and filtering processes on the corner outlier pixels. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the subjective picture quality and slightly increases the coding efficiency in Inter prediction.

HEVC 표준에 적용된 인루프 필터링 방법인 De-blocking filter와 SAO(Sample Adaptive Offset)은 영상의 블록화 현상(Blocking artifacts)과 ringing artifacts를 효과적으로 제거하여 부호화 효율 및 주관적 화질 향상을 달성하였다. 하지만, 인루프 필터링 사용에도 불구하고, Corner outlier artifacts라 불리는 블록 경계의 모서리 부분에서 발생하는 2차원 형태의 블록화 현상은 쉽게 제거하지 못하는 문제점을 보인다. 본 논문에서는 Corner outlier 픽셀 탐색 및 판단과정, 해당 outlier 픽셀의 필터링 방법을 통하여 이러한 artifacts를 감소시키는 방법을 제안한다. 실험결과, 제안하는 방법은 화면간 예측에서 약간의 압축 효율 향상을 보였으며, 특히 영상의 주관적 화질 측면에서 개선된 효과를 나타내었다.

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