Adaptive DCT coding of video signals

Abstract

A coefficient-by-coefficient adaptive discrete cosine transform (DCT) is investigated. The interframe DCT has been known to possess an adverse effect in that it generates mosquito and blocking noise. By analyzing DCT for the intraframe and the interframe video signals, a new adaptive intra/interframe DCT is developed. Cases without and with the movement-compensation are discussed separately. Through simulations, it is shown that a substantial improvement gain (1.0-5.0 dB/sub p-p/ or 0.2-2.0 dB/sub p-p/, respectively) can be obtained by the new adaptive method. The improvement is brought about by the reduction of the blocking noise conventionally generated by the coarse quantization of the higher order interframe DCT coefficients. By calculating the improvement bound, a further possibility is discussed. >