Postprocessing of block-coded videos for deflicker and deblocking

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel postprocessing method to suppress both the flickering and blocking artifacts in block-coded videos. For reducing the flickering effect between adjacent frames, we propose an adaptive multi-scale motion filtering method to maintain the motion coherence of processed video. For blocking artifacts suppression, we adopt a patch-based scheme in which similar patches are grouped in a spatio-temporal domain and each patch group is recovered by solving a low rank matrix completion problem. Experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly reduce the flickering and blocking artifacts in the decoded videos.