出版社:The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
摘要:We propose a new coding method by applying slant transform (SLT) to gradation areas instead of discrete cosine transform (DCT). A contour in a gradation area, which is often caused by the coding process for high compression, is one of the typical artifact noises for subjective evaluation. Since the pixel value changes linearly in a gradation area, DCT is not always suitable for its transformation. In our proposed method, although only traditional DCT is utilized in the encoding process to avoid increasing computational complexity, the inverse SLT (ISLT) instead of IDCT is performed in the area that is estimated as a gradation area in accordance with the distribution of DCT coefficients in the decoding process. The coding block size of the gradation area is easily expanded by simple operations using the hierarchy of SLT. In accordance with our experimental analysis, the proposed scheme has been performed to clarify the improvement of quality in gradation areas.