High Performance Adaptive Deblocking Filter for H.264/AVC

AbstractIn this paper, the deblocking filter in H.264 where blocking artifacts influences image quality is discussed. High performance is achieved using adaptive deblocking filters. In advanced video-coding standard for H.264, the adaptive deblocking filter plays a very important role in order to detect and analyze real and artificial edges on coded block. This paper presents a new approach for the adaptive deblocking filter of the H.264/AVC in order to improve quality. Comparing with the standard algorithm, the experimental results demonstrate the improvement in both the objective and the subjective qualities, which can achieve the improvement about 0.25~0.35 dB PSNR in average compared with the original H.264/AVC reference software JM11.0.