Deblocking filtering method considering intra-BL mode and multilayer video encoder/decoder using the same

• US 20070025448A1
• Filed: 07/11/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jae-young, Ha, Ho-jin, Lee, Kyo-hyuk, Cha, Sang-chang, Han, Woo-jin, Lee, Bae-keun
• Application Number:
  US11/483,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20070025448A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.240
• 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 19/159 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 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/86 involving reduction of coding artifacts, e.g. of blockiness

Abstract

Deblocking filter used in a video encoder/decoder based on a multilayer. In deciding a deblocking filter strength when performing a deblocking filtering with respect to a boundary between a current block coded by an intra-BL mode and its neighboring block, it is determined whether the current block or the neighboring block has coefficients. The filter strength is decided as a first filter strength if it is determined that the current block or the neighboring block has the coefficients, and the filter strength is decided as a second filter strength if it is determined that the current block or the neighboring block does not have the coefficients. The first filter strength is greater than the second filter strength.

Claims

1. A method of deciding a deblocking filter strength for performing a deblocking filtering with respect to a boundary between a current block coded by an intra-BL mode and a neighboring block, the method comprising:

(a) determining whether the current block or the neighboring block has coefficients;

(b) deciding the filter strength as a first filter strength if it is determined that the current block or the neighboring block has the coefficients; and

(c) deciding the filter strength as a second filter strength if it is determined that the current block or the neighboring block does not have the coefficients.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first filter strength is greater than the second filter strength.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining whether the neighboring block corresponds to a directional intra-mode; and

deciding the filter strength as a third filter strength if it is determined that the neighboring block corresponds to the directional intra-mode,

wherein (a) through (c) are performed only if the neighboring block does not correspond to the directional intra-mode, and the third filter strength is greater than the first filter strength and the second filter strength.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the boundary includes at least one of a horizontal boundary and a vertical boundary between the current block and the neighboring block.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first filter strength is “

2”

, the second filter strength is “

0”

, and the third filter strength is “

4”

.

6. A method of deciding a deblocking filter strength for performing a deblocking filtering with respect to a boundary between a current block coded by an intra-BL mode and a neighboring block, the method comprising:

(a) determining whether the current block or the neighboring block corresponds to the intra-BL mode in which the current block and the neighboring block have a same base frame;

(b) deciding the filter strength as a first filter strength if it is determined that the current block or the neighboring block does not correspond to the intra-BL mode; and

(c) deciding the filter strength as a second filter strength if it is determined that the current block or the neighboring block corresponds to the intra-BL mode.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first filter strength is greater than the second filter strength

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining whether the neighboring block corresponds to a directional intra-mode; and

deciding the filter strength as a third filter strength if it is determined that the neighboring block corresponds to the directional intra-mode,

wherein (a) through (c) are performed only if the neighboring block does not correspond to the directional intra-mode, and the third filter strength is greater than the first filter strength and the second filter strength.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the boundary includes at least one of a horizontal boundary and a vertical boundary between the current block and the neighboring block.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first filter strength is “

2”

, the second filter strength is “

1”

, and the third filter strength is “

4”

.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining whether the neighboring block corresponds to a directional intra-mode; and

deciding the filter strength as a fourth filter strength if it is determined that the neighboring block corresponds to the directional intra-mode,

wherein (a) through (c) are performed only if the neighboring block does not correspond to the directional intra-mode, and the fourth filter strength is greater than the first filter strength.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the boundary includes at least one of a horizontal boundary and a vertical boundary between the current block and the neighboring block.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first filter strength is “

2”

, the second filter strength is “

1”

, the third filter strength is “

0”

, and the fourth filter strength is “

4”

.

11. A method of deciding a deblocking filter strength for performing a deblocking filtering with respect to a boundary between a current block coded by an intra-BL mode and a neighboring block, the method comprising:

(a) determining whether the current block and the neighboring block have coefficients;

(b) determining whether the current block and the neighboring block correspond to the intra-BL mode in which the current block and the neighboring block have a same base frame; and

(c) deciding the filter strength as a first filter strength if both a first condition and a second condition are satisfied, deciding the filter strength as a second filter strength if one of the first and second conditions is satisfied, and deciding the filter strength as a third filter strength if neither of the first and second conditions is satisfied,

wherein the first condition is that the current block and the neighboring block have the coefficients and the second condition is that the current block and the neighboring block do not correspond to the intra-BL mode in which the current block and the neighboring block have the same base frame,

wherein the first filter strength is greater than the second filter strength, and the second filter strength is greater than the third filter strength.

15. A video encoding method based on a multilayer using a deblocking filtering, the video encoding method comprising:

(a) encoding a video frame;

(b) decoding the encoded video frame;

(c) deciding a deblocking filter strength to be applied with respect to a boundary between a current block and a neighboring block that are included in the decoded video frame; and

(d) performing the deblocking filtering with respect to the boundary according to the decided deblocking filter strength,

wherein (c) is performed considering whether the current block corresponds to an intra-BL mode and whether the current block or the neighboring block has coefficients.

16. The video encoding method of claim 15, wherein (c) is performed based on whether the current block and the neighboring block correspond to an intra-BL mode in which the current block and the neighboring block have a same base frame.

17. The video encoding method of claim 16, wherein (c) is performed based on whether the neighboring block corresponds to a directional intra-mode.

16-1. A video decoding method based on a multilayer using a deblocking filtering, the video decoding comprising:

(a) restoring a video frame from a bitstream;

(b) deciding a deblocking filter strength to be applied with respect to a boundary between a current block and its neighboring block that are included in the restored video frame; and

(c) performing the deblocking filtering with respect to the boundary according to the decided deblocking filter strength,

wherein (b) is performed based on whether the current block corresponds to an intra-BL mode and whether the current block or the neighboring block has coefficients.

19. The video decoding method of claim 18, wherein (b) is performed based on whether the current block and the neighboring block correspond to an intra-BL mode in which the current block and the neighboring block have a same base frame.

20. The video decoding method of claim 19, wherein (b) is performed based on whether the neighboring block corresponds to a directional intra-mode.

21. A video encoder based on a multilayer using a deblocking filtering, the video encoder comprising:

a first unit which encodes a video frame;

a second unit which decodes the encoded video frame;

a third unit which decides a deblocking filter strength to be applied with respect to a boundary between a current block and a neighboring block that are included in the decoded video frame; and

a fourth unit which performs the deblocking filtering with respect to the boundary according to the decided deblocking filter strength,

wherein the third unit decides the filter strength based on whether the current block corresponds to an intra-BL mode and whether the current block or the neighboring block has coefficients.

22. A video decoder based on a multilayer using deblocking filtering, the video decoder comprising:

a first unit which restores a video frame from a bitstream;

a second unit which decides a deblocking filter strength to be applied with respect to a boundary between a current block and a neighboring block that are included in the restored video frame; and

a third unit which performs the deblocking filtering with respect to the boundary according to the decided deblocking filter strength,

wherein the second unit decides the filter strength based on whether the current block corresponds to an intra-BL mode and whether the current block or the neighboring block has coefficients.