Learned Quality Enhancement via Multi-Frame Priors for HEVC Compliant Low-Delay Applications
Networked video applications, e.g., video conferencing, often suffer from poor visual quality due to unexpected network fluctuation and limited bandwidth. In this paper, we have developed a Quality Enhancement Network (QENet) to reduce the video compression artifacts, leveraging the spatial and temp...
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Main Authors | , , , , , |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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02.05.2019
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Summary: | Networked video applications, e.g., video conferencing, often suffer from
poor visual quality due to unexpected network fluctuation and limited
bandwidth. In this paper, we have developed a Quality Enhancement Network
(QENet) to reduce the video compression artifacts, leveraging the spatial and
temporal priors generated by respective multi-scale convolutions spatially and
warped temporal predictions in a recurrent fashion temporally. We have
integrated this QENet as a standard-alone post-processing subsystem to the High
Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) compliant decoder. Experimental results show
that our QENet demonstrates the state-of-the-art performance against default
in-loop filters in HEVC and other deep learning based methods with noticeable
objective gains in Peak-Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and subjective gains
visually. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1905.01025 |