Compression artifact reduction by overlapped-block transform coefficient estimation with block similarity

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4613-4626

  Zhang, Xinfeng ^a,b,c   Xiong, Ruiqin ^c   Fan, Xiaopeng ^d   Ma, Siwei ^c   Gao, Wen ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

block similarity; Block transform coding; compression artifacts; denoising; post processing

Indexed keywords

BLOCK SIMILARITY; BLOCK-TRANSFORM CODING; COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS; DE-NOISING; POST PROCESSING;

FORECASTING; IMAGE CODING; RELIABILITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84884884845     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2274386     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. M.-Y. Shen and C.-C. Jay Kuo, "Review of postprocessing techniques for compression artifact removal," J. Vis. Commun. Image Represent., vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 2-14, Mar. 1998. (Pubitemid 128407091)
2. H. C. Reeve and J. S. Lim, "Reduction of blocking effect in image coding," in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, vol. 8. Apr. 1983, pp. 1212-1215.
3. B. Ramamurthi and A. Gersho, "Nonlinear space-variant postprocessing of block coded images," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech Signal Process., vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1258-1268, Oct. 1986. (Pubitemid 17468680)
4. A. Buades, B. Coll, and J. M. Morel, "A review of image denoising algorithms, with a new one," SIAM J. Multiscale Model. Simul., vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 490-530, Jan. 2005. (Pubitemid 43890582)
5. A. Buades, B. Coll, and J.-M. Morel, "A non-local algorithm for image denoising," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. CVPR, vol. 2. Jun. 2005, pp. 60-65.
6. H. Takeda, S. Farsiu, and P. Milanfar, "Kernel regression for image processing and reconstruction," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 349-366, Feb. 2007. (Pubitemid 46421678)
7. A. Zakhor, "Iterative procedures for reduction of blocking effects in transform image coding," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 91-95, Mar. 1992.
8. S. Minami and A. Zakhor, "An optimization approach for removing blocking effects in transform image coding," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 74-82, Apr. 1995.
9. T. P. O'Rourke and R. L. Stevenson, "Improved image decompression for reduced transform coding artifacts," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 490-499, Dec. 1995.
10. D. Sun and W.-K. Cham, "Postprocessing of low bit-rate block DCT coded images based on a fields of experts prior," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 2743-2751, Nov. 2007. (Pubitemid 350141847)
11. S. Wu, H. Yan, and Z. Tan, "An efficient wavelet-based deblocking algorithm for highly compressed images," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 1193-1198, Apr. 2001. (Pubitemid 33137796)
12. T. Chen, H. R. Wu, and B. Qiu, "Adaptive postfiltering of transform confidents for the reduction of blocking artifacts," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 594-602, May 2001. (Pubitemid 32512140)
13. S. Liu and A. C. Bovik, "Efficient DCT-domain blind measurement and reduction of blocking artifacts," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 1139-1149, Dec. 2002.
14. S. S. O. Choy, Y.-H. Chan, and W.-C. Siu, "Reduction of block-transform image coding artifacts by using local statistics of transform coefficients," IEEE Signal Process. Lett., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 5-7, Jan. 1997. (Pubitemid 127554928)
15. K. Lee, D. S. Kim, and T. Kim, "Regression-based prediction for blocking artifact reduction in JPEG-compressed images," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 36-48, Jan. 2005. (Pubitemid 40085322)
16. A. Foi, V. Katkovnik, and K. Egiazarian, "Pointwise shape-adaptive DCT for high-quality denoising and deblocking of grayscale and color images," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1395-1411, May 2007. (Pubitemid 46655437)
17. D. K. Hammond and E. P. Simoncelli, "Image denoising with an orientation-adaptive Gaussian scale mixture model," in Proc. 13th IEEE Int. Conf. Image Process., Oct. 2006, pp. 1433-1436.
18. M. F. Tappen, B. C. Russel, and W. T. Freeman, "Exploiting the sparse derivative prior for super-resolution and image demosaicing," in Proc. IEEE Workshop Stat. Comput. Theories Vis., 2003, pp. 1-24.
19. T. S. Cho, N. Joshi, C. L. Zitnick, S. B. Kang, R. Szeliski, and T. Freeman, "A content-aware image prior," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. CVPR, Jun. 2010, pp. 169-176.
20. S. Roth and M. Black, "Fields of Experts: A framework for learning image priors," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. CVPR, vol. 2. Jun. 2005, pp. 860-867.
21. W. Pennebaker and J. Mitchell, JPEG Still Image Data Compression Standard. New York, NY, USA: Van Nostrand, 1993.
22. J. L. Mitchell, W. B. Pennebaker, C. E. Fogg, and D. J. LeGall, MPEG Video Compression Standard. London, U.K.: Chapman & Hall, 1997.
23. T. Wiegand, G. J. Sullivan, G. Bjøntegaard, and A. Luthra, "Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 560-576, Jul. 2003.
24. M. Robertson and R. Stevenson, "DCT quantization noise in compressed images," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 27-38, Jan. 2005. (Pubitemid 40135875)
25. B. K. Gunturk, Y. Altunbasak, and R. Mersereau, "Superresolution reconstruction of compressed video using transform-domain statistics," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 33-43, Jan. 2004.
26. R. M. Gray and D. L. Neuhoff, "Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 2325-2384, Oct. 1998. (Pubitemid 128741893)
27. B. Patrick, Probability and Measure, 3rd ed. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 1995.
28. K. Dabov, A. Foi, V. Katkovnik, and K. Egiazarian, "Image denoising by sparse 3-D transform-domain collaborative filtering," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 2080-2095, Aug. 2007. (Pubitemid 47225460)
29. G. Zhai, W. Zhang, X. Yang, W. Lin, and Y. Xu, "Efficient image deblocking based on postfiltering in shifted windows," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 122-126, Jan. 2008.
30. A. Nosratinia, "Enhancement of JPEG-compressed image by reapplication of JPEG," IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integr. (VLSI) Syst., vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 69-79, Feb. 2001. (Pubitemid 32190757)
31. M. Elad and M. Aharon, "Image denoising via sparse and redundant representations over learned dictionaries," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 3736-3745, Dec. 2006. (Pubitemid 44811686)
32. P. Chatterjee and P. Milanfar, "Patch-based near-optimal image denoising," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 1635-1649, Apr. 2012.
33. (2007, Jun.). JPEG Encoder and Decoder [Online]. Available: http://www.ijg.org/
34. Z. Wang, A. C. Bovik, H. R. Sheikh, and E. P. Simoncelli, "Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 600-612, Apr. 2004.
35. P. List, A. Joch, J. Lainema, G. Bjøntegaard, and M. Karczewicz, "Adaptive deblocking filter," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 614-619, Jul. 2003.
36. (2011, Jun.). The H.264/AVC Reference Software [Online]. Available: http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/old-jm/
37. S. Farsiu, M. D. Robinson, M. Elad, and P. Milanfar, "Fast and robust multiframe super-resolution," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1327-1344, Oct. 2004.
38. E. Y. Lam and J. W. Goodman, "A mathematical analysis of the DCT coefficient distributions for images," IEEE Trans. Image Process., vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 1661-1666, Oct. 2000.