Intra Prediction using Weighted Average of Pixel Values According to Prediction Direction

In this paper, we proposed a method to reduce quantization error. In order to reduce quantization error, low pass filtering is applied on neighboring samples of current block in H.264/AVC. However, it has a weak point that low pass filtering is performed regardless of prediction direction. Since it doesn-t consider prediction direction, it may not reduce quantization error effectively. Proposed method considers prediction direction for low pass filtering and uses a threshold condition for reducing flag bit. We compare our experimental result with conventional method in H.264/AVC and we can achieve the average bit-rate reduction of 1.534% by applying the proposed method. Bit-rate reduction between 0.580% and 3.567% are shown for experimental results.

Authors:

• Kibaek Kim
• Dongjin Jung
• Jinik Jang
• Jechang Jeong

Keywords:

• Coding efficiency
• H.264/AVC
• Intra prediction
• Low pass filter

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