<p>The present invention relates to bitstream organization, coding and decoding of the image data including filtering parameters. In particular, according to the present invention the slices of images and the filtering parameters relating to filtering of the respective slices are encoded and decoded independently of each other. Moreover, the filtering is located in the bitstream before (in front of) the data including slice image data even when the coding of the slice data and the filtering data is performed in a reverse order.</p>
