Method of applying edge offset

摘要

Provided is a method of post-processing a reconstructed image. The method according to an embodiment includes determining a boundary strength for each 4-sample edge which is a prediction edge or a transform edge and lies on 8×8 sample grid, determining whether deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge or not using the boundary strength and a boundary quantization parameter, filtering the 4-sample edge if the deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge, and applying an edge offset if a sample adaptive offset (SAO) type indicates an edge offset.

主权项

1. A method of post-processing a reconstructed image, the method comprising
determining a boundary strength for a 4-sample edge which is a prediction edge or a transform edge and lies on an 8×8 sample grid; determining whether deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge or not using the boundary strength and a boundary quantization parameter; filtering the 4-sample edge if the deblocking filtering is applied on the 4-sample edge; and applying an edge offset if a sample adaptive offset (SAO) type indicates an edge offset, wherein the step of applying an edge offset comprises the sub-steps of: generating an edge index of a current sample; and generating an edge offset corresponding to the edge index to the current sample, wherein the edge index is generated using the following equation,
edgeIdx=2+sign3(recPicture(x)−recPicture(x−1)) +sign3(recPicture(x)−recPicture(x+1)), wherein the function sign3(y) is equal to 1 if the y is larger than 0, the function sign3(y) is equal to −1 if the y is smaller than 0, and the function sign3(y) is equal to 0 if the y is equal to 0, wherein the variable recPicture(x) represents the current sample value, and the variables recPicture(x−1) and recPicture(x+1) represent two neighboring sample values, wherein the boundary quantization parameter is an average of a quantization parameter of a P block containing sample p0 and a quantization parameter of a Q block containing sample q0, the quantization parameter of the P block is generated by using a quantization parameter predictor and a differential quantization parameter of the P block, and if two or more quantization parameters are available among a left quantization parameter, an above quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter of the P block, the quantization parameter predictor of the P block is generated using two available quantization parameters which are determined according to an order of the left quantization parameter, the above quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter, and wherein the 4-sample edge is filtered using a filter which is selected between a strong filter and a weak filter.