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A Spatially Adaptive Post-processing Filter to Remove Blocking Artifacts of H.264 Video Coding Standard  

Choi, Kwon-Yul (LG 이노텍)
Hong, Min-Cheol (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
Abstract
In this paper, we present a spatially adaptive post-processing algorithm for H.264 video coding standard to remove blocking artifacts. The loop filter of H.264 increases computational complexity of the encoder. Furthermore it doesn't clearly remove the blocking artifacts, resulting in over-blurring. For overcoming them, we combine the projection method with the Constraint Least Squares(CLS) method to restore the high quality image. To reflect the Human Visual System, we adopt the weight norm CLS method. Particularly pixel location-based local variance and laplacian operator are newly defined for the CLS method. In addition, the fact that correlation among adjoining pixels is high is utilized to constrain the solution space when the projection method is applied. Quantization Index(QP) of H.264 is also used to control the degree of smoothness. The simulation results show that the proposed post-processing filter works better than the loop filter of H.264 and converges more quickly than the CLS method.
Keywords
H.264; Loop Filter; Post-processing; Blocking Artifact;
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