Sample adaptive offset in the HEVC standard

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1755-1764

  Fu, Chih Ming ^a   Alshina, Elena ^b   Alshin, Alexander ^b   Huang, Yu Wen ^a   Chen, Ching Yeh ^a   Tsai, Chia Yang ^a   Hsu, Chih Wei ^a   Lei, Shaw Min ^a   Park, Jeong Hoon ^b   Han, Woo Jin ^c  

^a MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^c Gachon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Advanced video coding (AVC); band offset; edge offset; H.264; High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC); Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT VC); sample adaptive offset (SAO); video standard

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VIDEO CODING; BAND OFFSETS; COLLABORATIVE TEAMS; EDGE OFFSET; H.264; HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING (HEVC); SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET (SAO); VIDEO STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 84872356274     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2012.2221529     Document Type: Article

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