Deblocking of block-transform compressed images using weighted sums of symmetrically aligned pixels

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-212

  Averbuch, Amir Z ^a   Schclar, Alon ^a   Donoho, David L ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block transform; Deblocking; Postprocessing; Symmetrically aligned pixels

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE CODING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BLOCK TRANSFORM; DEBLOCKING FRAMES; POSTPROCESSING; SYMMETRICALLY ALIGNED PIXELS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 13244257252     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2004.840688     Document Type: Article

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