Coding and noise filtering an image sequence
First Claim
1. A method of coding (10,10*) an image sequence (g(i,j,k)), the method comprising the steps of:
- noise filtering (12) the image sequence (g(i,j,k)); and
adapting (12*) said noise filtering (12) in dependence on a rate-distortion optimization of said coding (10,10*).
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Abstract
The invention provides a method of and a device for coding (10*) an image sequence (g(i,j,k)). The device (10*) has a noise filter (12) for noise filtering (12) the image sequence (g(i,j,k)), and means (12) for regarding the noise filtering (12) as a rate-distortion optimization problem in order to adapt the response of the noise filter (12). In particular, a filter parameter set (C) is determined to adapt the response of the filter (12) in that the image sequence (g(i,j,k)) is encoded using an optimal bit-budget, which is the bit-budget used for compressing a noise-free image sequence, and the distortion for the given bit-budget is minimized.
A solution of the rate-distortion problem is proposed that calculates (12) the filter parameter set (C) by a Lagrange multiplier method. Separate minimization is used to determine each parameter of the parameter set (C) independently. In a practical embodiment, a spatial adaptive weighted averaging (SAWA) filtering (23) is used to estimate the bit budget (Rf*) and to pre-filter the image sequence (g(i,j,k)).
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5 Claims
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1. A method of coding (10,10*) an image sequence (g(i,j,k)), the method comprising the steps of:
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noise filtering (12) the image sequence (g(i,j,k)); and
adapting (12*) said noise filtering (12) in dependence on a rate-distortion optimization of said coding (10,10*). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A device (10,10*) for coding an image sequence (g(i,j,k)), the device comprising:
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means (12) for noise filtering the image sequence (g(i,j,k)); and
means (12*) for adapting a response of said means for noise filtering (12) in dependence on a rate-distortion optimization of said coding (10,10*). - View Dependent Claims (5)
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