Blocky artifacts reduction by step-function modeling in DCT coded images

DCT 부호화된 영상에서 계단함수모형에 의한 구획잡음의 제거방법

  • 양정훈 (서울대학교 전기공학부) ;
  • 최혁 (서울대학교 전기공학부) ;
  • 김태정 (서울대학교 전기공학부)
  • Published : 1998.07.01

Abstract

A simple postprocessing algorithm is proposed to reduce the blocky artifacts of Block Discrete Cosine Transform (BDCT) coded images. Since the block noise is mostly antisymmetric relative to the block boundaries, we model the blocky noise as one-dimensional antisymmertric functions made by superposing DCT basis functions. observing the frequency characteristics of the noies model, we approximate its high frequency components as those of step functions. Then the proposed postprocessing algorithm eliminates the carefully selected high frequency components of step functions in the one-dimensional sN-point DCT domain, when the encoding block size is $N\;{\times}\;N$. It is shown that the proposed algorithm can also be performed in the spatial domain without computational burden of transforms. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm well reduces the blocky artifacts in both subjective and objectie viewpoints.

이 논문에서는 DCT를 사용하여 부호화된 영상으로부터 구획잡읍을 제거하는 간단한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 구획 잡음은 구획경계를 중심으로 반대칭의 형태로 나타나므로, 이 논문에서는 DCT 기저들을 이용한 1차원 반대칭 함수로서 구획잡음을 모형화한다. 제안된 잡음모형의 주파수 특성으로부터, 잡음모형의 고주파성분들을 계단함수에 의한 고주파 성분으로 근사한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 $N\;{\times}\;N$ 구획별로 부호화된 영상에 대해 2N차 DCT영역에서 계단 함수에 의한 고주파 성분들을 제거하는 것이다. 또한 이 알고리즘이 공간영역에서 적은 계산량으로 간단히 수행될 수 있음을 보였다. JPEG 알고리즘을 사용하여 부호화된 영상에 대한 실험을 통하여 제안된 방법이 주관적, 객관적으로 우수한 화질을 보임을 알 수 있다.

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