| 摘要 |
An improved method and system for edge adaptive interpolation. The method uses a "9x2" window to detect the edge direction with post-processing to remove any artifacts due to the possible false edge detection, and a hierarchical scheme is employed to reduce the computation required. The method detects if there is edge existing along the current pixel. If there is no edge, then the edge detection output will be 90 degrees (the interpolation will be performed along the vertical direction). If an edge does exist, the method determines whether the edge direction falls within a first or second direction group. Once the edge direction is assigned to a particular group (e.g., 0-90 degrees or 90-180 degrees), the edge direction will be detected among five (5) possible directions. To further improve the edge detection precision, and also to remove the possibility of false edge direction detection, a post-processing technique may be applied to the edge direction signal. After the edge signal post-processing, the edge direction information is then passed to an edge adaptive interpolation block to perform the interpolation along the edge direction detected. Still another post-processing technique may be applied to the edge adaptive interpolated signal to further remove the possible noise due to an incorrect edge direction detection. |
