arXiv · 2010.13059
A QP-adaptive Mechanism for CNN-based Filter in Video Coding
Abstract
Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based filters have achieved great success in video coding. However, in most previous works, individual models are needed for each quantization parameter (QP) band. This paper presents a generic method to help an arbitrary CNN-filter handle different quantization noise. We model the quantization noise problem and implement a feasible solution on CNN, which introduces the quantization step (Qstep) into the convolution. When the quantization noise increases, the ability of the CNN-filter to suppress noise improves accordingly. This method can be used directly to replace the (vanilla) convolution layer in any existing CNN-filters. By using only 25% of the parameters, the proposed method achieves better performance than using multiple models with VTM-6.3 anchor. Besides, an additional BD-rate reduction of 0.2% is achieved by our proposed method for chroma components.
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Chao Liu, Heming Sun, Jiro Katto, Xiaoyang Zeng, Yibo Fan. 2020-10-25. A QP-adaptive Mechanism for CNN-based Filter in Video Coding. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13059
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