Blocking Artifacts Suppression in Block-Coded Images Using Overcomplete Wavelet Representation

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 450-461

  Liew, Alan W C ^a   Yan, Hong ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Block discrete cosine transform (BDCT); Blocking artifacts; Overcomplete wavelet; Wavelet deblocking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; TEXTURES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BLOCK DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (BDCT); BLOCKING ARTIFACTS; OVERCOMPLETE WAVELET; WAVELET DEBLOCKING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 2042544770     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.825555     Document Type: Article

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