Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image information

• US 8,971,419 B2
• Filed: 03/20/2014
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2011
• 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:
  US14/220,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20140204999A1
• Time in Patent Office: 348 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240.29, 375/240.26, 375/240.16, 375/240.13, 375/240.18, 375/240.12, 382/268, 382/260, 382/236, 382/248, 382/238
• US Class Current: 375/240.29
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• 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 19/134 characterised by the element, parameter or criterion affecting or controlling the adaptive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/136 Incoming video signal characteristics or properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/14 Coding unit complexity, e.g. amount of activity or edge presence estimation H04N19/146 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/159 Prediction type, e.g. intra-frame, inter-frame or bidirectional frame prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/172 the region being a picture, frame or field
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/196 being specially adapted for the computation of encoding parameters, e.g. by averaging previously computed encoding parameters processing of motion vectors H04N19/513
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/60 using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• 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

The present invention relates to a deblocking filtering method, a method for inducing bs (boundary strength) therefor, and a method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding using the same. The method for inducing the bS of the present invention comprises the steps of: inducing a boundary of a deblocking filtering unit block as a unit block for applying the deblocking filtering; and setting the bS according to each bS setting unit block within the deblocking filtering unit block, wherein the bS setting step can set a bS value for a target boundary corresponding to a boundary of the deblocking filtering unit block as the bs setting unit block.

Claims

1. A method of deblocking filtering, the method comprising:

deriving prediction samples in a current picture based on an inter prediction or an intra prediction;

reconstructing the current picture based on addition of the prediction samples and residual samples;

deriving a boundary strength (bS) of a target boundary by a bS setting unit boundary in the reconstructed picture blocks;

determining whether deblocking filtering is to be applied on the target boundary in the reconstructed picture by a deblocking filtering unit boundary based on the bS of the target boundary being larger than 0;

determining whether strong filtering is to be applied or weak filtering is to be applied for the target boundary based on determining that the deblocking filtering is to be applied to the target boundary;

applying the strong filtering to the target boundary based on determining that the strong filtering is to be applied to the target boundary; and

applying the weak filtering to the target boundary based on determining that the weak filtering is to be applied to the target boundary,

wherein, in the operation of deriving the bS of the target boundary, the bS value is set for the target boundary, the target boundary being a boundary that overlaps both the deblocking filtering unit boundary and the bS setting unit boundary, and

wherein the deblocking filtering unit boundary is a boundary of an 8×

8 pixel block and the bS setting unit boundary is a boundary of a 4×

4 pixel block.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein deriving the bS includes

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

setting the bS value of the target boundary to 1 in a case that the target boundary is a deblocking filtering target and not in the case that at least one of two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary is intra-coded; and

setting the bS value of the target boundary to 0 in a case that the target boundary is not a deblocking filtering target,

wherein the value of the bS is either 0, 1, or 2.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the case in which the bS is set to 1 is not the case in which at least one of two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary is intra-coded and includes:

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

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

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

the operation of deriving the bS of a target boundary by a bS setting unit boundary,

the operation of determining whether deblocking filtering is applied,

the operation of determining whether strong filtering is to be applied or weak filtering is to be applied,

the operation of applying the strong filtering, and

the operation of applying the weak filtering

are first performed on vertical edges in a picture including the deblocking filtering unit blocks and are then performed on horizontal edges in the picture including the deblocking filtering unit blocks.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of determining whether strong filtering is to be applied or weak filtering is to be applied is performed on the basis of samples of two blocks with the target boundary as a boundary between the two blocks.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining whether the strong filtering is to be applied or the weak filtering is to be applied 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 in case of the target boundary being a vertical edge, and is performed 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 in case of the target boundary being a horizontal edge.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein based on determining that the weak filtering is to be applied, the filtering is performed on samples selected from the samples to be subjected to the deblocking filtering.