• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.557-559
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• 2015

움직임 보상 기반 프레임율 변환(Frame rate up-conversion based on motion compensation )에서 발생하는 블로킹 현상(Blocking artifact)을 줄여 영상의 화질을 높이기 위한 디블로킹 필터(De-blocking filter) 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 블록 단위로 동작하는 움직임 보상 과정에서 주변 블록과의 움직임이 급격히 달라지는 폐색영역에서 발생하는 블로킹 현상을 크게 줄일 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 기존의 필터링을 하지 않는 방법보다 화질이 약 0.01db 향상하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.513-526
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a de-blocking filter for improvement of coding efficiency and computational complexity reduction on a high definition video coding. Recently, the H.264/AVC standard-based research for high definition video coding method is under way because the amount of used of high definition videos is on the increase. The H.264/AVC de-blocking filter is designed for low bitrate video coding and it improves not only the subjective quality but also coding efficiency by minimizing the blocking artifact. However, the H.264/AVC de-blocking filter that strong filtering is performed is not suitable in a high definition video coding which occurs relatively low blocking artifact. Also, the conventional de-blocking filter has high computational complexity in decoder side. The computational complexity of the proposed method is reduced about maximum 8.8% than conventional method. Furthermore, the coding efficiency of the proposed method is about maximum 7.3% better than H.264/AVC de-blocking filter.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.383-391
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• 2005

In this paper, a new anisotropic diffusion based on Alvarez, Lions, and Morel (ALM) diffusion model is proposed for the suppression of blocking artifact caused by discrete cosine transform (DCT) based image compression. The proposed diffusion model, which incorporates a 'rate control parameter' (RCP), makes it possible to reduce blocking artifacts while to preserve the edge. The RCP controls the rate between isotropic and anisotropic diffusion. Isotropic diffusion is encouraged to eliminate the blocking artifacts in a block boundary of a smooth region, while anisotropic diffusion is encouraged to keep the edge or texture sharp in edge and a block boundary within an edge region. Additionally, to avoid oversmoothness of the texture region, a 'speed control parameter' (SCP), which makes diffusion process slow in the texture region, is employed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6A
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• pp.592-601
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• 2002

A postprocessing method for blocking artifact reduction in block coded images is presented. The proposed method consists of classification, adaptive inter-block filtering, and intra-block filtering. First, each block is classified as one of seven classes according to the characteristics of 8x8 DCT coefficients. Then each block boundary is faltered by adaptive inter-block filters, which use the block classes. Finally to the blocks which are classified as edge block classes, intra-block filtering is performed. Experimental tests produced that the proposed method gives better results than the convectional methods from both a subjective and an objective viewpoint.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 1996

In this paper, we present an image coder using variable quantizer for newly proposed JPEG extensions which has been standardized as ISO/IEC 10918-3(ITU-T Rec. T.84). It is necessary to alleviate the blocking artifact which is more sensitive to human eye in view of the spatial frequency sensitivity. The blocking artifact arises in the lower activity area rather than in the higher area. Therefore variable quantizer use the horizontal and vertical derivatives for calculating the $8{\times}8$ block activity. We classified nonlinear quantizer parameter into 5 categories in order to finely quantize in the lower active region. As a result of simulation for various images, the proposed coder increases subjective and objective quality at a given bit rate.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.48-53
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• 2004

Due to NxN block coding blocking artifacts are exhibited by block-based DCT coding images, primarily at low bit rates. In this letter, we propose the new technique that reduce the blocking artifacts pixels in such images. In the case of combining with list block reconstruction techniques, our algorithm can be also used to improve image qiality. And, the performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated experimentally.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.242-243
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• 2010

Reducing compression artifacts such as ringing and blocking is one of important issues to improve a visual quality of a JPEG compressed image. In this paper, we propose a new post processing technique based on bilateral filtering (BF), which is one of the techniques that are used to reduce compression artifacts. An important issue with the application of the BF is the selection of the filter parameters, which affects the result significantly. In this work, we suggest a new method to select the filter parameter automatically. In addition to artifact reduction using the BF, a contrast enhancement is performed to overcome the contrast loss problem due to compression. The experimental result shows that the proposed approach can alleviate the artifacts efficiently.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.194-200
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• 2011

This paper presents a deblocking method for video compression in which the blocking artifacts are effectively extracted and eliminated based on both spatial and frequency domain operations. Firstly, we use a probabilistic approach to analyze the performance of the conventional macroblock-level deblocking scheme. Then, based on the results of the analysis, an algorithm to reduce the computational complexity is introduced. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional video coding methods in terms of computation complexity while coding efficiency is maintained.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.8
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• pp.611-614
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose an adaptive blocking artifact reduction algorithm using characteristics of the block boundaries. Blocking artifacts contain the high frequency components near the block boundaries, so the lowpass filtering can remove them. But a simple lowpass filtering results into blurring by remove important features such as edges. To overcome this problem, we determine the modes depending on the characteristics around boundaries then proper filter is applied to each area. Simulation results show that the proposed method improves deblocking performance compared to that of MPEG-4.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.28-37
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose new methods used in MPEG codec that can improve the picture quality degradations of the reconstructed images, such as blocking artifacts, without additional computations. At first, a new 2-step MAD motion search is presented in the motion search and compensation course to reduce the computations and the errors of block boundary pixels. And we also present an overlapped 2-step MAD motion search that use the pixels beyond the block boundary using the reduced computations. In DCT/quantization course for intra-blocks, 1-D DCT predictive quantization and pixel difference predictive quantization, those use the adjacent pixel sets of the Previously reconstructed blocks and improve the inter-block continuity, are presented. As simulation results, proposed methods shows better picture qualities by reducing blocking artifacts than that of the conventional MPEG.