Deep Multi-Scale Residual Learning-based Blocking Artifacts Reduction for Compressed Images

Min Hui Lin, Chia Hung Yeh, Chu Han Lin, Chih Hsiang Huang, Li Wei Kang

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Abstract

Blocking artifact, characterized by visually noticeable changes in pixel values along block boundaries, is a general problem in block-based image/video compression systems. Various post-processing techniques have been proposed to reduce blocking artifacts, but most of them usually introduce excessive blurring or ringing effects. This paper presents a deep learning-based compression artifacts reduction (or deblocking) framework relying on multi-scale residual learning. Recent popular approaches usually train deep models using a per-pixel loss function with explicit image priors for directly producing deblocked images. Instead, we formulate the problem as learning the residuals (or the artifacts) between original and the corresponding compressed images. In our deep model, each input image is down-scaled first with blocking artifacts naturally reduced. Then, the learned SR (super-resolution) convolutional neural network (CNN) will be used to up-sample the down-scaled version. Finally, the up-scaled version (with less artifacts) and the original input are fed into the learned artifact prediction CNN to obtain the estimated blocking artifacts. As a result, the blocking artifacts can be successfully removed by subtracting the predicted artifacts from the input image while preserving most original visual details.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages18-19
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781538678848
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Mar
Event1st IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2019 - Hsinchu, Taiwan
Duration: 2019 Mar 182019 Mar 20

Publication series

NameProceedings 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2019

Conference

Conference1st IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, AICAS 2019
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityHsinchu
Period2019/03/182019/03/20

Keywords

  • blocking artifacts
  • convolutional neural networks
  • deblocking
  • deep learning
  • deep residual learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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