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Deblocking Filter for Depth Videos in 3D Video Coding Extension of HEVC

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This paper presents a modified deblocking filter for depth video coding in the 3D video coding extension of High Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC). The conventional 3D video coding extension of HEVC (3D-HEVC) employs a deblocking filter and sample adaptive offset (SAO) in the loop filter in which both tools are applied to color video coding only. Nevertheless, the deblocking filter can smooth out blocking artifacts existing in coded depth videos, resulting in improving the coding efficiency. In this paper, we modify the original deblocking filter of HEVC and apply it to depth video coding. The goal is to enhance the depth video coding efficiency. The modified filter is executed when a set of conditions regarding the boundary strength are satisfied. In addition, the impulse response is altered for more smoothing between block boundaries. Experiment results show 5.2 % BD-rate reduction in depth video coding in comparison to the conventional 3D-HEVC.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning(No. 2011-0030079).

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  1. Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 500-712, Republic of Korea

    Yunseok Song & Yo-Sung Ho

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  1. Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea (Republic of)

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  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation, Beijing, China

    Jitao Sang

  3. KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Yong Man Ro

  4. KAIST, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Junmo Kim

  5. College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Fei Wu

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Song, Y., Ho, YS. (2015). Deblocking Filter for Depth Videos in 3D Video Coding Extension of HEVC. In: Ho, YS., Sang, J., Ro, Y., Kim, J., Wu, F. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015. PCM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24078-7_29

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