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In lossy video coding, in-loop filter can improve the image reconstruction by reducing compression artifacts and distortions. Recently, several CNN-based in-loop filtering algorithms are proposed to improve HEVC. However, something deficient is still limiting their capability to further boost the coding efficiency. Specifically, things like prediction residuals and coding-unit boundaries, which is quite relevant to the compression artifacts, were usually neglected; moreover, the loss functions adopted in these methods usually haven't been regularized properly. To improve these inadequacies, we propose a deep learning based in-loop filter for HEVC to improve its rate-distortion performance. Firstly, prediction residuals, the compression of which is actually where the encoding noise directly results from, are skillfully considered to help filtering. Then, we unify a block-based measurement-reconstruction process and a neighborhood-based filtering process into one end-To-end all-convolutional architecture to catch the relevance between compression noise and the pixel's related position to the coding block boundaries. Finally, for network training, total-variation model is adopted to derive the loss function by MAP (maximum a posteriori) estimation for better regularization. Experimentally, our proposed in-loop filtering method brings average 6.5% and 4.3% BD-rate reduction under AI and RA configuration respectively. © 2019 IEEE.
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Year: 2019
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