IEEE
Transactions on Communications, vol. 46, no. 6, pp.
732-734, June 1998
A Novel Approach for
Reduction of Blocking Effects in Low-bit-rate Image Compression
1 Department of Computer Science, City
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2 Dept. of Communication & Electronic
Engineering, South China Univ. of Tech., Guangzhou, China
Index Terms: image coding; blocking effects reduction;
low-bit-rate image compression; removing blocking artifacts; reconstructed
block-encoded images; piecewise similarity; block boundary pixels; smoothing
constraints; local regions; enhanced decoding; JPEG-decoded images