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Variable Block-Based Deblocking Filter for H.264/Avc VARIABLE BLOCK-BASED DEBLOCKING FILTER FOR H.264/AVC Seung-Ho Shin, Young-Joon Chai, Kyu-Sik Jang, Tae-Yong Kim GSAIM, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea ABSTRACT macroblocks up to 4x4 blocks, it is possible to decrease artifacts on the boundaries between 4x4 blocks. In the The deblocking filter in H.264/AVC is used on low-end process of decreasing the blocking artifacts, however, the terminals to a limited extent due to computational actual images’ edges may erroneously be blurred. And it complexity. In this paper, Variable block-based deblocking may not be used on low-end terminals due to complex filter that efficiently eliminates the blocking artifacts computation and large memory capacity. Despite such occurred during the compression of low-bit rates digital shortcomings, however, the deblocking filter can be said to motion pictures is suggested. Blocking artifacts are plaid be the most essential technology in enhancing the subjective images appear on the block boundaries due to DCT and image quality. The general opinion of the subjective image quantization. In the method proposed in this paper, the quality test proves that there is distinguishing difference in image's spatial correlational characteristics are extracted by the image qualities with and without the deblocking filter using the variable block information of motion used [6]. compensation; the filtering is divided into 4 modes according to the characteristics, and adaptive filtering is In this paper, we suggest a block-based deblocking filter by executed in the divided regions. The proposed deblocking using the variable block information of the motion method eliminates the blocking artifacts, prevents excessive compensation. By using the variable block information and blurring effects, and improves the performance about 40% considering human’s visual characteristics and moving compared with the existing method. picture characteristics, the filtering mode is classified into 4 types to adapt the filter structure. In section 2, the in-loop deblocking filter and variable block-size motion compensation are introduced. In section 3, 1. INTRODUCTION the deblocking filtering method using variable block information is proposed. The proposed method is verified H.264, using new video coding technologies, increases the through experiments in section 4. The conclusions are stated compression rate with the same image quality compared in section 5. with the existing H.263v2 (H.263+) [2] or MPEG-4 Simple Profile [3]. The remarkable characteristics of H.264 include 2. BACKGROUND variable block motion compensation, multiple reference images, 1/4-pixel motion vector accuracy, and in-loop 2.1. In-loop Deblocking Filter deblocking filter [1]. Although such coding technologies are the main functions to increase compression efficiency, the In H.264/AVC, the block distortion is eliminated by using high complexity leads to the unavoidable increase in the adaptive in-loop deblocking filter. The H.264/AVC computational cost. Performance improvement to decrease deblocking filter can be applied to the edges of all 4x4 the complexity and to prevent the quality deterioration is blocks in a macroblock except for edges on slice boundaries. necessary to adapt the newly defined techniques into low- In order to apply the filter to each macroblock, the filtered end terminals. In this paper, methods to improve the pixels at the top and on the left of the current macroblock performance of the deblocking filter to enhance the are used, and the luma and chroma components are subjective image quality on low-end/low-bit rates terminals separately processed. Filtering is applied to vertical / are presented. In the H.264 standards, the deblocking filter, horizontal edges of 4x4 blocks in a macroblock, filtering is also called the loop filter, is used to decrease blocking done first from the left to the right vertically and then from artifacts. The blocking artifact, a distortion resulted due to top to bottom on the horizontal edges. For the 16x16 luma the differences in the quantization parameter values between component, it is applied to four 16-pixel edges; for the 8x8 macroblocks, refers to the phenomenon in the motion chroma components, it is applied two 8-pixel edges. The picture images which is appeared with loss of edge clarity strength of the filter depends on the current quantization, the and tone fuzziness in square patterns. Deblocking filtering is coding modes of neighboring blocks and the gradient of necessary to decrease such distortion on the boundaries image samples across the boundary. The filtering process between macroblocks. Since H.264 can segment 16x16 1-4244-1017-7/07/$25.00 ©2007 IEEE 436 ICME 2007 goes through three processes, such as, boundary strength, The deblocking filtering method proposed in this paper can filter decision, and filter implementation [7]. decrease the computational cost through the phase of boundary strength parameter selection and boundary pixel 2.2. Variable block-size Motion Compensation analysis by classifying filtering modes using variable block information used for motion compensation. Generally in The variable block-size motion compensation (VBSMC) motion compensation, variable blocks are divided into technology of H.264 conforms well to the image blocks of 16x16, 16x8, and 8x16 in flat regions or large characteristics or the motion characteristics inside the objects and divided into blocks of 8x8, 8x4, 4x8, and 4x4 in motion by dividing the motion compensation block size complex and fine regions with lots of motion especially on more finely than the existing H.263 or MPEG-2/4. That is, the part with many edge elements. in MPEG-2 the 16x16-pixel fixed-size motion compensation The filtering performance can be improved by executing block is used; in MPEG-4 two kinds of pixel motion filtering using the spatial correlational characteristics compensation blocks, 16x16 and 8x8, are used. Differently between adjacent blocks of divided variable blocks. The in H.264, seven kinds of motion compensation block sizes, human visual system (HVS) is more sensitive to the from the 16x16 pixel to 4x4 pixels, are used to compensate discontinuity of flat and simple regions than complex motions. regions. In flat and simple regions, strong filtering is applied to decrease block distortion phenomenon; in complex and fine regions, weak filtering is applied in order to prevent the edges of actual objects from being blurred [5]. Filtering starts in the vertical direction of the whole macroblock excluding the edges of slice boundaries and then proceeds in the horizontal direction. The filtering is executed based not on the 4x4 blocks within a macroblock, which is the existing method, but on the variable blocks of motion compensation. The pixel values changed in the Fig.1. Variable Block is used for motion compensation in H.264 vertical filtering are reflected in the horizontal filtering. Fig. For the flat regions or in the case the size of objects is large, 2, 3, and 4 are the examples of determining the filtering the motion compensation is executed with large 16x16 mode according to the adjacent block characteristics in the blocks; for complex regions or in the case the sizes of horizontal filtering of 16x16 variable blocks. objects are small, the motion compensation is achieved by small blocks such as 4x4 blocks. In general the smaller the size of the blocks for motion compensation, the better motion compensation results can be obtained. If the size of the blocks gets smaller, however, more searches should be carried out, thus increasing the complexity and the number of motion vectors to transmit. In order to solve such problem in H.264, an adaptive motion compensation which applies the size of blocks selectively according to the image characteristics is carried out [4]. 3. VARIABLE BLOCK-BASED DEBLOCKING FILTER Fig.2. Filtering mode (4) decision of 16x16 variable blocks If the screen size of images gets larger, the computational Fig. 2 shows the case that the adjacent blocks of the 16x16 cost of the deblocking filter increases proportionally. The block are selected as 16x16 or 8x16 on the motion filtering method currently adopted in H.264 standard is compensation process. In such a case, assuming that the diverse in the choice of filter coefficient according to image that surrounds the boundaries is a flat and simple adjacent block characteristics, reference picture region, the strongest filtering is applied by assigning characteristics, and I/P/B coding. Since “If” commands are filtering mode (4). In order to eliminate the internal as well used profusely in the selection of filter coefficient, fast as the block boundary’s blocking artifacts, filtering is computation through pipelining cannot be expected in the applied to all edges of 4x4 blocks in the 16x16 block, in the implementation of the actual deblocking filter. As a result 4 boundaries of the luma component and 2 boundaries of many commercial H.264 Decoders tend not to use the each chroma component. The filtering processing is same as deblocking filter for real-time decoding, which will results existing method. in very fatal image deterioration as time passes. 437 mode (2) is assigned. In this case, assuming that blocking artifacts and actual image feature edges coexist, the filtering is applied to the range of 4 pixels, p0, p1, q0, and q1. The filtering formulas are as the following. p1’, p0’, q0’ and q1’ are produced by filtering of p1, p0, q0 and q1. d = (p0 – q0) / 5. (4) p1’ = p1 + sign(d) |d|. q1’ = q1 – sign(d) |d|. (5) p0’ = p0 + 2 sign(d) |d|. q0’ = q0 – 2 sign(d) |d|. (6) Fig.3. Filtering mode (3) decision of 16x16 variable blocks In such a way, the filtering mode is determined adaptively Fig. 3 shows the case that the adjacent blocks of the 16x16 by searching the adjacent blocks of the 7-type variable block are 16x8 or 8x8.
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