Post-processing for blocking artifact reduction based on inter-block correlation

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1536-1548

  Yoo, Seok Bong ^a   Choi, Kyuha ^a   Ra, Jong Beom ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blocking artifacts; group based filtering; inter block correlation; three lowest frequency DCT coefficients

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING ARTIFACT REDUCTIONS; BLOCKING ARTIFACTS; GROUP-BASED; INTER-BLOCK CORRELATIONS; POST PROCESSING; THREE LOWEST FREQUENCY DCT COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 84907448611     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2014.2327563     Document Type: Article

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