Proc. IEEE Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,
Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2005.
Reduced Complexity Deblocking Filter for H.264 Video Coding
Kin-Hung Lam
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Engineering Science Building,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712-1084 USA
klam@ece.utexas.edu
Abstract
For the emerging H.264/MPEG4 Advanced Video Coding joint standard,
a deblocking filter in the decoder is required. The Adaptive
Deblocking Filter by List et al. has low complexity because
it only uses addition, shift and comparison operations. In this paper,
adaptive deblocking filter was analyzed and found that more than 90%
of the computation resources were spent on computing edge strengths.
I propose and implement a reduced complexity edge strength computation
that exploits the similarity of edge strengths among adjacent normals.
The simulation results show that the signal-to-noise ratio (in dB) and
mean structural similarity index are within 1% of those of the original
algorithm while computation is reduced by 50%.
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