Post-Processing for Decoding without Update Step in Motion-Compensated Lifted Wavelet Video Coding
Aditya Mavlankar, Markus Flierl and Bernd Girod{maditya,mflierl,bgirod}@stanford.edu
MAX PLANCK CENTER FOR VISUAL COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION
Proposed Post-ProcessingMotivationMC lifted wavelets require update step at encoder.
Skipping update step at decoder gives benefits like lower complexity and lower playout delay.
But skipping this update step at decoder leads to significant quality degradation at high bit-rates.
Analysis
Synthesis with Update Step
Synthesis without Update Step
reconstruction shows spurious artifact proportional to original highband.
Maintains low complexity and low playout delay.Extends to 5/3 wavelet. [Mavlankar et al. VCIP 2007]Mitigates half of the quality degradation.
Experimental Results
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City (CIF) video sequence
4 levels of 5/3 wavelet.
Foreman (CIF) video sequence
4 levels of 5/3 wavelet.
