Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image information

• US 10,326,988 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Seungwook, Lim, Jaehyun, Jeon, Yongjoon, Kim, Chulkeun, Kim, Jungsun, Park, Naeri, Hendry, Hendry, Jeon, Byeongmoon, Park, Joonyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): An, Shawn S
• Application Number:
  US14/356,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20140369428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,416 Days
• Field of Search: 37524029, 37524026, 37524016, 37524013, 37524018, 37524012, 382268, 382260, 382236, 382248, 382238
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/117 Filters, e.g. for pre-processing or post-processing sub-band filter banks H04N19/635
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/136 Incoming video signal characteristics or properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/159 Prediction type, e.g. intra-frame, inter-frame or bidirectional frame prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/82 involving filtering within a prediction loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/86 involving reduction of coding artifacts, e.g. of blockiness

Abstract

A deblocking filtering method, a boundary strength (bS) deriving method, and encoding/decoding method and apparatus using the methods are provided. The bS deriving method includes the steps of: deriving a boundary of a deblocking filtering unit block which is a unit block on which deblocking filtering is performed; and setting a bS for each bS setting unit block in the deblocking filtering unit block. Here, the step of setting the bS includes setting a bS value of a target boundary corresponding to the boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block as the bS setting unit block.

Claims

1. A deblocking filtering method, by a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:

deriving a boundary of a deblocking filtering unit block which is a unit block for which deblocking filtering is performed in a reconstructed current picture;

setting a boundary strength (bS) of a boundary of a bS setting unit block in the reconstructed current picture; and

applying deblocking filtering on the boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block based on the bS,

wherein the step of setting the bS includes setting a bS value for a target boundary which is an overlapped boundary of the bS setting unit block and the deblocking filtering unit block,

wherein the step of applying the deblocking filtering includes determining whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a luma sample on the basis of the bS value and whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a chroma sample on the basis of the bS value,

wherein the bS value is set as a value among 0, 1 and 2,

wherein it is determined that the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample when the bS value is greater than a first threshold value which is 0, and it is determined that the deblocking filtering is applied to the chroma sample when the bS value is greater than a second threshold value which is 1,

wherein when the bS value is equal to 1, the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample and the deblocking filtering is not applied to the chroma sample.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of setting the bS includes:

setting the bS value of a target boundary which is a overlapped boundary of a vertical boundary of the bS setting unit block and a vertical boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block when the derived boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block is the vertical boundary; and

setting the bs value of a target boundary which is a overlapped boundary of a horizontal boundary of the bS setting unit block and a horizontal boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block when the derived boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block is the horizontal boundary.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of setting the bS includes:

setting the bS value of the target boundary to 2 in a first case in which at least one of two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two blocks is intra-coded;

setting the bS value of the target boundary to 1 in a second case which is a case other than the first case and is not a case in which the deblocking filtering is not applied to the target boundary; and

setting the bS value of the target boundary to 0 in a case other than the first case and the second case, and

wherein the deblocking filtering is applicable to the target boundary when the bS of the target boundary is 2 or 1.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second case in which the bS value is set to 1 is a case in which two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two blocks are not intra-coded and includes:

a case in which at least one of the two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two blocks includes a transform coefficient other than 0; and

a case in which the two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two blocks have different reference pictures or different motion vectors.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of deriving the boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block and the step of setting the bS are first performed on vertical edges in the reconstructed current picture including the deblocking filtering unit block and are then performed on horizontal edges in the reconstructed current picture including the deblocking filtering unit blocks.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein when the bS value set for the target boundary is larger than 0 and the deblocking filtering is performed thereon, it is determined which of strong filtering and weak filtering is applied.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the determination on which of strong filtering and weak filtering is applied is performed on the basis of samples of the two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two block, and

wherein the determination on which of strong filtering and weak filtering is performed on the basis of samples to be subjected to the deblocking filtering out of samples in sample rows with the target boundary as a boundary between the sample rows when the target boundary is a vertical boundary, and

on the basis of samples to be subjected to the deblocking filtering out of samples in sample columns with the target boundary as a boundary between the sample columns when the target boundary is a horizontal boundary.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein when it is determined that the weak filtering is performed, the filtering is performed on the samples selected from the samples to be subjected to the deblocking filtering including the strong filtering and the weak filtering.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the deblocking filtering unit block is an 8×

8 pixel block.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the bS setting unit block is a 4×

4 pixel block.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a reference bS value used to determine whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a luma sample is different from a reference bS value used to determine whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a chroma sample.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of setting the bS includes:

setting the bS value to 2 when at least one of two luma sample blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two luma sample blocks is intra-coded;

setting the bS value to 1 when it is not a case in which at least one of two luma sample blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two luma sample blocks is intra-coded and the deblocking filtering is applicable to the luma sample; and

setting the bS value to 0 when the target boundary is not a deblocking filtering target for the luma sample.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the case in which the bS value is set to 1 is not a case in which at least one of two luma sample blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two luma sample block is intra-coded and includes:

a case in which at least one of two luma sample blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two luma sample blocks includes a transform coefficient other than 0;

a case in which the two luma sample blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two luma sample blocks have different reference pictures or different motion vectors.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample or the chroma sample by using a deblocking parameter tC, the tC is derived by using a luma quantization parameter Q and a predetermined mapping table using a value of the Q,

wherein the Q is derived based on the following equation,

qPL+2*bS−

2+slice_tc_offset_div2<

<

1,

wherein the qPL is a quantization parameter for the deblocking filtering, the slice_tc_offset_div2 represents an offset value for the deblocking filtering, and the slice_tc_offset_div2 is obtained through a slice header.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the qPL is determined based on the following equation,

(QPQ+QPP+1)>

>

1,

wherein QPQ is a quantization parameter of a first block among two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two blocks and QPP is a quantization parameter of a second block among the two blocks.

16. A deblocking filtering method, by an encoding apparatus, the method comprising:

deriving a boundary of a deblocking filtering unit block which is a unit block for which deblocking filtering is performed in a reconstructed current picture;

setting a boundary strength (bS) of a boundary of a bS setting unit block in the reconstructed current picture; and

applying deblocking filtering on the boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block based on the bS,

wherein the step of setting the bS includes setting a bS value for a target boundary which is an overlapped boundary of the bS setting unit block and the deblocking filtering unit block,

wherein the step of applying the deblocking filtering includes determining whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a luma sample on the basis of the bS value and whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a chroma sample on the basis of the bS value,

wherein the bS value is set as a value among 0, 1 and 2,

wherein it is determined that the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample when the bS value is greater than a first threshold value which is 0, and it is determined that the deblocking filtering is applied to the chroma sample when the bS value is greater than a second threshold value which is 1,

wherein when the bS value is equal to 1, the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample and the deblocking filtering is not applied to the chroma sample.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing information on instructions causing a decoding apparatus to perform the following steps:

deriving a boundary of a deblocking filtering unit block which is a unit block for which deblocking filtering is performed in a reconstructed current picture;

setting a boundary strength (bS) of a boundary of a bS setting unit block in the reconstructed current picture; and

applying deblocking filtering on the boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block based on the bS,

wherein the step of setting the bS includes setting a bS value for a target boundary which is an overlapped boundary of the bS setting unit block and the deblocking filtering unit block,

wherein the step of applying the deblocking filtering includes determining whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a luma sample on the basis of the bS value and whether the deblocking filtering is applied to a chroma sample on the basis of the bS value,

wherein the bS value is set as a value among 0, 1 and 2,

wherein it is determined that the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample when the bS value is greater than a first threshold value which is 0, and it is determined that the deblocking filtering is applied to the chroma sample when the bS value is greater than a second threshold value which is 1,

wherein when the bS value is equal to 1, the deblocking filtering is applied to the luma sample and the deblocking filtering is not applied to the chroma sample.