WO2003061295A2 - Sharpness enhancement in post-processing of digital video signals using coding information and local spatial features - Google Patents
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- the present invention is directed to a system and method for enhancing the quality of a digital video signal using coding information and local spatial features.
- the system and method of the invention enhances the sharpness of encoded or transcoded digital video without enhancing encoding artifacts.
- MPEG Motion Picture Expert Group
- MPEG operates on a color space that effectively takes advantage of the eye's different sensitivity to luminance and chrominance information.
- MPEG video is arranged into a hierarchy of layers to help with error handling, random search and editing, and synchronization, for example with an audio bit-stream.
- the first layer, or top layer is known as the video sequence layer, and is any self-contained bitstream, for example a coded movie, advertisement or a cartoon.
- the second layer below the first layer, is the group of pictures (GOP), which is composed of one or more groups of intra (I) frames and/or non-intra (P or B) pictures.
- I frames are strictly intra compressed, providing random access points to the video.
- P frames are motion-compensated forward-predictive-coded frames, which are inter-frame compressed, and typically provide more compression than I frames.
- B frames are motion- compensated bidirectionally-predictive-coded frames, which are inter-frame compressed, and typically provide the most compression.
- the third layer below the second layer, is the picture layer itself.
- the fourth layer beneath the third layer is called the slice layer. Each slice is a contiguous sequence of raster ordered macroblocks, most often on a row basis in typical video applications.
- Each slice consists of macroblocks, which are 16x16 arrays of luminance pixels, or picture data elements, with two 8x8 arrays (depending on format) of associated chrominance pixels.
- the macroblocks can be further divided into distinct 8x8 blocks, for further processing such as transform coding.
- a macroblock can be represented in several different manners when referring to the YCbCr color space.
- the three formats commonly used are known as 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 video.
- 4:2:2 contains half as much chrominance information as 4:4:4, which is a full bandwidth YCbCr video, and 4:2:0 contains one quarter of the chrominance information. Because of the efficient manner of luminance and chrominance representation, the 4:2:0 representation allows immediate data reduction from 12 blocks/macroblock to 6 blocks/macroblock.
- I frames provide only moderate compression as compared to the P and B frames, where MPEG derives its maximum compression efficiency.
- the efficiency is achieved through a technique called motion compensation based prediction, which exploits temporal redundancy. Since frames are closely related, it is assumed that a current picture can be modeled as a translation of the picture at the previous time. It is possible then to accurately predict the data of one frame based on the data of a previous frame, hi P frames, each 16x16 sized macroblock is predicted from the macroblocks of previously encoded I or P picture. Since frames are snapshots in time of a moving object, the macroblocks in the two frames may not correspond to the same spatial location.
- the encoder would search the previous frame (for P-frames, or the frames before and after for B-frames) in half pixel increments for other macroblock locations that are a close match to the information that is contained in the current macroblock.
- the displacements in the horizontal and vertical directions of the best match macroblocks from a cosited macroblock are called motion vectors.
- the difference between the current block and the matching block and the motion vector are encoded.
- the motion vectors can also be used for motion prediction in case of corrupted data, and sophisticated decoder algorithms can use these vectors for error concealment.
- For B frames motion compensation based prediction and interpolation is performed using reference frames present on either side of each frame.
- Next generation storage devices such as the blue-laser-based Digital Video Recorder (DVR) will have to some extent HD (High Definition) (ATSC) capability and are an example of the type of device for which a new method of picture enhancement would be advantageous.
- An HD program is typically broadcast at 20 Mb/s and encoded according to the MPEG-2 video standard. Taking into account the approximately 25 Gb storage capacity of the DVR, this represents about a two-hour recording time of HD video per disc.
- several long-play modes can be defined, such as Long-Play (LP) and Extended-Long-Play (ELP) modes.
- LP-mode the average storage bitrate is assumed to be approximately 10
- transcoding is an integral part of the video processing chain, which reduces the broadcast bitrate of 20 Mb/s to the storage bitrate of 10 Mb/s.
- the picture quality e.g., sharpness
- the picture quality should not be compromised too much. Therefore, for the LP mode, postprocessing plays an important role in improving the perceived picture quality.
- NTSC National Television System Committee
- PAL Phase Alternation Line
- SECAM SEquential Couleur A Memoire
- image enhancement algorithms either reduce certain unwanted aspects in a picture (e.g., noise reduction) or improve certain desired characteristics of an image (e.g., sharpness enhancement).
- the traditional sharpness enhancement algorithms may perform sub-optimally on MPEG encoded or transcoded video due to the different characteristics of these sources, i the closed video processing chain of the storage system, information which allows for determining the quality of the encoded source can be derived from the MPEG stream. This information can potentially be used to increase the performance of video enhancement algorithms.
- the iterative gradient- projection algorithm employed by the authors uses coding information such as quantization step size, macroblock types and forward motion vectors in its cost function.
- the algorithm shows promising results for low bit rate video, however, the method is marked by high computational complexity.
- the invention includes a method of enhancing image quality of a coded digital video signal representative of at least one frame in a digital video system.
- the method comprises the steps of: creating a usefulness metric identifying a limit to sharpness enhancement to be applied to the coded digital video signal, defining local spatial features in a frame and identifying a frame type for the frame.
- the method further includes the steps of calculating a coding gain of each pixel in the frame based on the local spatial features and the usefulness metric in accordance with the frame type and applying the coding gain to at least one sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- the method includes generating an enhanced digital video signal by application of the sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- the invention also includes a system for enhancing sharpness of a coded digital video signal representative of at least one frame.
- the system comprises: a selector to select and extract statistical information from a coded digital video signal, a usefulness metric generator to create a usefulness metric for the coded digital video signal after decoding.
- the usefulness metric identifies a limit to sharpness enhancement to be applied to a decoded video signal.
- the systems further includes means for defining local spatial features in the frame, means for identifying a frame type for the frame.
- the system includes means for calculating a coding gain of each pixel in the frame based on the local spatial features and the usefulness metric in accordance with the frame type, and a sharpness enhancer which applies a sharpness enhancement algorithm to the decoded digital video signal to improve sharpness of the signal based on the coding gain.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary digital television set comprising the system and method of the present invention
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an advantageous embodiment of an adaptive peaking unit comprising a usefulness metric generator and a coding gain control block of the present invention
- Fig. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an alternate embodiment of a sharpness enhancement algorithm used in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an alternate advantageous embodiment of an adaptive peaking unit comprising a usefulness metric generator and a coding gain control block of the present invention
- Fig. 5 is a flow diagram illustrating a method of computing a coding gain for an I-frame.
- Fig. 6 is a flow diagram illustrating a method of computing a coding gain for a P-frame.
- Fig. 7 is a flow diagram illustrating an advantageous embodiment of a method of operation of the present invention.
- the method and corresponding steps of the invention will be described in conjunction with the detailed description of the system.
- Figs. 1 through 7, discussed below, and the various embodiments herein to describe the principles of the system and method of the present invention, are by way of illustration only and should not be construed in any way to limit the scope of the invention.
- the system and method of the present invention will be described as a system for and method of enhancing image quality of a coded digital video signal in a digital television set. It is important to realize that the system and method of the present invention is not limited to digital television sets.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a digital television set 100 that utilizes the apparatus and method of the present invention.
- Digital television set 100 comprises television receiver 110 and display unit 115.
- Display unit 115 may be a cathode ray tube or a flat panel display or any type of equipment for displaying video images.
- Television receiver 110 comprises antenna 105 for receiving television signals.
- Antenna 105 is coupled to tuner 120.
- Tuner 120 is coupled to intermediate frequency ("IF") processor 125.
- IF processor 125 as embodied herein, is coupled to a decoder 130. While the present invention depicts an MPEG decoder, the invention is not limited to MPEG type encoding/decoding applications.
- any block based compression schemes such as, for example, JPEG (still image compression standard), MPEG- 1,2,4 (digital video standards), H.261, H. 263 (video conferencing standards) and others can be utilized.
- JPEG still image compression standard
- MPEG- 1,2,4 digital video standards
- H.261, H. 263 video conferencing standards
- most DCT coefficients from a DCT on an 8 by 8 block of pixels are small and become zero after quantization. This property of the DCT on real world images is important to the compression schemes.
- a method and corresponding system are provided for enhancing image quality of a coded digital video signal representative of at least one frame in a digital video system.
- the method generally includes, as described in detail below, the steps of creating a usefulness metric identifying a limit to sharpness enhancement to be applied to the coded digital video signal, defining local spatial features in the frame, and identifying the type of frame.
- a coding gain is then calculated for each pixel in the frame based on the local spatial features and the usefulness metric in accordance with the frame type. Once calculated, the coding gain is then applied to at least one sharpness enhancement algorithm to generate an enhanced digital video signal.
- Fig. 7 is a flow diagram illustrating an advantageous embodiment of the method of the present invention.
- the steps of this method embodied herein will be described in greater detail below.
- the method for calculating the coding gain for processing one frame is generally indicated by the number 700.
- the coding information is obtained (step 705).
- the UME and the local spatial features for frame t are calculated in accordance with the invention (steps 710, 715).
- the method further includes the steps of calculating a coding gain of each pixel in the frame based on the local spatial features and the usefulness metric in accordance with the frame type identified (step 720).
- the method includes the step of applying the coding gain to at least one sharpness enhancement algorithm, and generating an enhanced digital video signal by application of the sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- the present invention creates the Usefulness Metric for Enhancement (UME) for enhancing video signal quality.
- the output of MPEG decoder 130 is coupled to post-processing circuits 135 for application of at least one sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- post processing circuits 135 may comprise an adaptive peaking unit 140 comprising the usefulness metric (UME) of the present invention.
- Adaptive peaking unit 140 may be located at an appropriate location within the post-processing circuits 135.
- the output of post-processing circuits 135 is input to display unit 115.
- adaptive peaking unit 140 processes the video signals received from MPEG decoder 130.
- Adaptive peaking unit 140 uses the UME in this example, to generate a value of a coding gain for use in the adaptive peaking process.
- the process of adaptive peaking is illustrative and shows how the UME of the present invention may be used. It is understood that the system and method of the present invention is not limited to the process of adaptive peaking.
- the UME may be used with more than one alternative type of video enhancement algorithm.
- Adaptive peaking unit 140 processes the video signals in a manner that takes into account the coded information in the video signal as well as the local spatial features, such as the variance of pixel luminance values.
- the output of adaptive peaking unit 140 is an enhanced luminance signal for the video signals that adaptive peaking unit 140 receives from MPEG decoder 130.
- the luminance signal that is determined by adaptive peaking unit 140 provides a more accurate and visually distinct video image than that provided by prior art adaptive peaking units as will be described further below.
- Adaptive peaking unit 140 transfers the enhanced luminance signal to other circuits within post processing circuits 135.
- Post-processing circuits 135 are capable of utilizing the enhanced luminance signal to enhance the quality of video signals.
- Post-processing circuits 135 are capable of carrying out several different types of video signal processing.
- some of the video signal processing applications include (a) noise level adaptive noise reduction algorithms, (b) noise level adaptive sharpness enhancement, (c) noise level adaptive luminance-chrominance separation, (d) noise level adaptive motion detection, (e) noise level adaptive motion estimation and compensation, (f) noise level adaptive up-conversion, (g) noise level adaptive feature enhancement, and (h) noise level adaptive object based algorithms.
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the system and method of adaptive peaking unit 140 according to one advantageous embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 2 illustrates how the usefulness metric for enhancement (UME) of the present invention can be applied to an adaptive peaking algorithm for sharpness enhancement.
- the adaptive peaking algorithm which is well known in the art is directed at increasing the amplitude of the transient of an input luminance signal 210.
- the adaptive peaking algorithm conventionally does not always provide optimal video quality for an "a priori" encoded / transcoded video source. This is mainly a result of the fact that the characteristics of the MPEG source are not taken into account.
- a usefulness metric generator 215 generates a usefulness metric (UME).
- the UME is designated with reference numeral 220.
- UME 220 takes into account the characteristics of the MPEG source, such as a quantization parameter and a number of bits spent to encode a macroblock.
- the original algorithm is extended by using UME 220, thereby significantly increasing the performance of the adaptive peaking algorithm.
- an adaptive peaking algorithm utilizes four (4) pixel-based control blocks.
- the four (4) control blocks are contrast control block 225, dynamic range control block 230, clipping prevention block 235, and adaptive coring block 240.
- Contrast control block 225 generates gain signal "g ⁇ ".
- Dynamic range control block 230 generates gain signal "g 2 ".
- Clipping prevention block 235 generates gain signal "g 3 ".
- Adaptive coring block 240 generates gain signal "g 4 ".
- These four (4) pixel based control blocks take into account particular local characteristics of the video signal such as contrast, dynamic range, and noise level. However, these four (4) control blocks do not take into account information concerning coding properties of the video signal and local spatial features, such as the variance of pixel luminance values.
- the system of the present invention provides a coding gain block 245.
- Coding gain block 245 uses usefulness metric (UME) 220 as well as the local spatial features to determine an allowable amount of peaking, as discussed further below.
- Coding gain block 245 generates gain signal "gcoding"
- Dynamic gain control block 250 selects the minimum of the five (5) gain signals (gl, g2, g3, g4, g codmg ) to generate a final gain signal "g".
- Multiplier circuit 255 multiplies the final gain signal "g" by the high pass signal that has been filtered by 2D peaking filter 260.
- Adder 265 adds the product from multiplier circuit 255 to the original luminance value of a pixel represented by luminance input signal 210. In this manner, the enhanced luminance output signal 270 is generated.
- Each of these functions can be performed by suitable components well known in the art.
- Fig. 3 illustrates a typical system for enhancing sharpness of a coded digital video in accordance with the present invention.
- the system comprises a high-pass filter 260 for filtering the input video signal 210, a multiplier 255 for multiplying the high pass filtered signal by the coding gain 258 determined through any of the methods of the present invention.
- the multiplication generates a gain controlled signal.
- the system further includes an adder 265 for adding the input video signal 210 with the gain controlled signal and generating the enhanced luminance output signal 270 which has improved picture quality as compared to the input signal 210.
- UME 220 calculates (on a pixel by pixel basis or on a regional basis) how much a pixel or region can be enhanced without increasing coding artifacts.
- UME 220 is derived from the MPEG coding information present in the bitstream. The coding information present in the bitstream can be retrieved during the decoding procedure.
- UME 220 provides an indication of the spatio-temporal characteristics or picture quality of the video.
- the finest granularity of MPEG information directly obtained during decoding is either (1) based on macroblock (MB) quantities, or (2) based on block based quantities.
- MB macroblock
- block based quantities the finest granularity of MPEG information directly obtained during decoding is either (1) based on macroblock (MB) quantities, or (2) based on block based quantities.
- the UME should be calculated for each pixel of a picture in order to ensure the highest picture quality.
- quantization parameter qjscale
- MB coded macroblock
- num_bits the number of bits spent to code a macroblock (MB) or a block.
- MB macroblock
- this quantity (num bits) is also highly dependent on scene content, bitrate, frame type (such as I (intra), P (predicted), B (bidirectionally predicted) frame types), motion estimation, and motion compensation.
- motion vectors can be used to obtain information on the temporal characteristics of the video to be enhanced. It is well known that the motion vectors estimated and used for MPEG encoding do not necessarily represent true motion in the video. However, the motion vectors can help to identify static areas and use the static areas to improve the temporal consistency of the enhancement from frame to frame even when the motion vectors are not reliable.
- the UME should typically be inversely related to the quantization parameter, qjscale.
- the method and system of the present invention create a usefulness metric identifying a limit to sharpness enhancement to be applied to the coded digital video signal.
- the following equation can be used to create the UME: q_scale
- N N , Q scale .
- the N factor is in the range of qjscale values.
- the M factor depends on the subjective perception of a user. For example, for a stronger sharpness enhancement the M factor is lowered, but if the user prefers a less sharper image, then the M factor can be increased. Possible M values are 1,2,4,8, etc.
- the value of UME can range from a value of "zero” ("0") to a value of "one” ("1").
- a value of "zero” for UME means that no sharpness enhancement is allowed for a particular pixel, while a value of "one” means that the pixel can be freely enhanced without the risk of enhancing any coding artifacts.
- the UME in Equation (1) is calculated for each block.
- both the UME and the local spatial features are used to calculate an coding gain to be used in a sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- the present invention therefore includes defining local spatial features of each frame of the video signal.
- the local spatial feature is defined by calculator 247.
- the local spatial feature is defined as a variance of the luminance value for each pixel over nxn window, covering nxn pixels. The variance is defined as follows:
- var(i, i) + k,j + m) - mean ⁇ Equation (2)
- q (n-l)/2
- pix(i+k, j+m) is the pixel value at the location (i+k, j+m)
- mean is the average pixel value over said nxn window.
- Terms i and / are the original coordinates of a pixel and k and m are the displacement values.
- the local spatial feature may be defined as region (texture or plain areas) map.
- the UME is calculated to account for coding characteristics, the UME prevents the enhancement of coding artifacts such as blocking and ringing. Thus, the prevention or reduction of artifacts of non-coding origin, which might result from applying too much enhancement, is addressed by other parts of the sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- the coding gain is calculated for each pixel in the frame based on the local spatial features and the UME and applied to at least one sharpness enhancement algorithm.
- the UME can be combined with any peaking algorithm.
- the UME can be adapted to any spatial domain sharpness enhancement algorithm. It is also possible to utilize only coding information and the local spatial features in combination with an adaptive peaking algorithm.
- Fig. 4 illustrates such an embodiment.
- the four (4) control blocks 225, 230, 235, and 240 of Fig. 2 have been eliminated. Only coding gain block 245 remains.
- the coding gain is calculated by utilizing the UME and the local spatial features by differentiating among different picture types.
- the local spatial features calculator 247 could be implemented in software or hardware or both. In the MPEG bitstream case, the different picture types are I, P and B.
- the I (or intra coded) frames use DCT encoding only to compress a single frame without reference to any other frame in the sequence.
- P (or predicted) frames are coded as differences from the last I or P frame.
- the new P-frame is first predicted by taking the last I or P frame and predicting the values of each new pixel.
- P-frames typically provide a compression ratio better than I-frames.
- B (or bi-directional) frames are coded as differences from the last or next I or P frame. B-frames use prediction similar to P-frames, but for each block either or both, the previous I or P frame is used or the next I or P frame is used.
- B-frames typically have an improved compression compared with P-frames, because it is possible to choose for every macroblock whether the previous or next frame is taken for comparison.
- the coding gain will be calculated differently depending on whether the frame is an I-frame, P-frame or B-frame.
- the UME is calculated according to the Equation (1) and the coding gain is set to equal to the UME.
- the condition is defined as: ((var > VAR_THREAD) and (numjbits ⁇ 0)), wherein var is the local spatial feature, VAR_THREAD is a predetermined variance threshold, and numjbits is the number of bits used to encode a luminance block.
- the coding gain is set to 0, and thus the input signal is unchanged.
- UME is calculated in accordance with Equation (1), and the coding gain is equal to the UME. If the local spatial feature is not greater than a predetermined variance threshold or if the number of bits to encode the luminance block is zero, then the coding gain is equal to zero.
- the MPEG-2 video compression standard allows the encoding of certain macroblocks (MB) and blocks in P (predicted) and B (bidirectionally predicted) pictures with no data. These macroblocks are called "skipped" macroblocks.
- Skipped macroblocks can be reconstructed in the decoding procedure using the reference pictures and coding information from the most recently coded and non-skipped macroblocks (MB). Furthermore, for macroblocks (MB) that are fully motion compensated, there are no DCT data in the bitstream or certain blocks in a macroblock (MB) are not coded.
- a macroblock is skipped, (i.e. the four luminance blocks of the macroblock are skipped), the coding gain is retrieved from the reference frame based upon a motion vector as is known in the art.
- condition C2 has to be evaluated.
- the coding gain map of the previous reference frame is assigned the coding gain.
- the same procedure used in P-frame can be applied to B-frame.
- the coding gain is applied to at least one sharpness enhancement algorithm to generate an enhanced digital video signal.
- the coding gain computed above is multiplied by the output of the high-pass filter 260 by using the multiplier circuit 255.
- the result is then added by adder 265 to the original luminance input signal 210 to create an enhanced luminance output signal 270.
- the sharpness enhancement algorithm is applied with the coding gain as illustrated in Fig. 3.
- the high-pass filter to be used may be:
- A is a scaling factor in the range between 0 and 1, i.e. (0,1], thus excluding 0, but including 1.
- Factor A typically depends on the subjective perception of the user. For sharper images k is increased.
- a signal representation of the result of the sharpness enhancement algorithm is then generated in a known manner for each pixel of the frame.
- the invention can also be applied to high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) sequences such as would be present in a video storage application having high definition (HD) capabilities and allowing long play (LP) mode.
- HD high definition
- SD standard definition
- SD standard definition
- HD high definition
- the method and system of the present invention provide for an improved way to enhance the quality of a digital coded video signal, by utilizing a sharpness enhancement algorithm.
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