Method and decoder for decoding an image frame of an image frame sequence

摘要

The invention is related to a method for decoding an image frame of an image frame sequence and to a corresponding decoder. The method comprises the steps of reconstructing a representation of the image frame, classifying at least one block boundary as to be either high-freq or low-freq and filtering pixels of the at least one block boundary in dependency on the classification and outputting the filtered representation. Film grain noise and/or random texture are more likely to produce high-freq boundaries. Therefore, filtering boundary pixels in dependency on frequency classification helps preserving film grain noise and random texture which are of relevance for video quality at high bit rates.