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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2017.22.3.313

The Filtering Method to Reduce Corner Outlier Artifacts in HEVC  

Ko, Kyung-hwan (Sejong University, Dept. of Computer Eng)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.22, no.3, 2017 , pp. 313-320 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
HEVC; Corner Outlier artifact; filtering; artifacts reduction; subjective quality;
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