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Digital Coding of Signals 048955 Spring 2007 A De-Blocking Algorithm and a Blockiness Metric for Highly Compressed Images Wenfeg Gao, Coskum Mermer and Youngmin Kim Presented by: Ora Gendler 2 Outline • Blocking Artifacts • Proposed de-blocking algorithm • Proposed blockiness metric • Results • Conclusions 3 Outline • Blocking Artifacts • Proposed de-blocking algorithm • Blockiness Metric • Results • Conclusions 4 Background • Block transform (DCT) scheme used in many standards ▫JPEG ▫ MPEG ▫ H.263 5 Background (Cont’) • Compression achieved by quantizing DCT coefficients • High frequency DCT coefficients removed at large compression ratios • Each block coded independently 6 Motivation Original Reconstructed Compression Ratio = 14.53 PSNR = 20.5373 7 General approach • Different coding schemes ▫ Overlapped transforms ▫ Requires modifications to standards • Various post processing techniques ▫ Estimate original image from blocky one [13] ▫ LPF near block boundaries [14] ▫ Proposed technique 8 Outline • Blocking Artifacts • Proposed de-blocking algorithm • Blockiness Metric • Results • Conclusions