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An Adaptive De-blocking Algorithm in Low Bit-rate Video Coding  

김종호 (한양대하교 전자통신전파공학과 영상통신 및 신호처리 연구실)
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정제창 (한양대하교 전자통신전파공학과 영상통신 및 신호처리 연구실)
Abstract
Most video codecs including the international standards use the block-based hybrid structure for efficient compression. But for low bit-rate applications such as video transmission through wireless channels, the blocking artifacts degrade image qualify seriously. In this paper, we propose an adaptive de-blocking algorithm using characteristics of the block boundaries. Blocking artifacts contain the high frequency components near the block boundaries, therefore the lowpass filtering can remove them. However, simple lowpass filtering results into blurring by removing important information such as edges. To overcome this problem, we determine the modes depending upon the characteristics of pixels adjacent to block boundary then proper filter is applied to each area. Simulation results show that proposed method improves de-blocking performance compared to that of MPEG-4.
Keywords
do-blocking filter; post-processing; MPEG-4 video; video compression.;
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