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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2010.15.5.617

Adaptive Rate-Distortion Optimized Multiple Loop Filtering Algorithm  

Hong, Soon-Gi (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Choe, Yoon-Sik (School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
Kim, Yong-Goo (Newmedia Dept., KGIT (Korean German Institute of Technology)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.15, no.5, 2010 , pp. 617-630 More about this Journal
Abstract
At 37th VCEG meeting in Jan. 2009, Toshiba proposed Quadtree-based Adaptive Loop Filter (QALF). The basic concept of QALF is to apply Wiener filter to decoded image after the conventional deblocking filter and to represent the filter on/off flag data for each basic filtering unit in a more efficient way of quadtree structure. QALF could enhance the compression performance of around more than 9%, but the structure of one filter for a decoded frame leaves room for further improvement in the sense that optimal filter for one region of a frame could quite different from the optimal filter for other parts of a picture. This paper proposes multiple adaptive loop filters for better utilization of local characteristics of decoded frame to optimize the region-based Wiener filters. Additional filters, proposed in this paper, cover separate spatial area of each decoded frame according to the performance of previously designed filter(s) to provide the flexibility of rate-distortion based selection of the number of filters.
Keywords
adaptive loop filter; multiple filter control; quadtree partition; optimal restoration filter;
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