摘要 |
An image coding apparatus includes an image characteristic determination unit configured to divide input image data into image blocks each including a plurality of pixels, and to determine a characteristic of each image block, a loop filter configured to perform a filtering process on each image block in a locally decoded image associated with the input image, and a control unit configured to control a property of the loop filter to perform a filtering process on image regions into which the image blocks are sorted according to characteristics of the image blocks determined by the image characteristic determination unit.
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