Optimized fuzzy transformation for image deblocking

Author

Nie, Yuo ; Barner, K.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 July 2003

Abstract

In this paper, the concept of fuzzy transformation is developed based on fuzzy ordering theory. The clustering property of the fuzzy transformation is investigated by deriving the distribution function of the fuzzy samples and is exploited to address the DCT coded image deblocking problem. In this application, the fuzzy transformation is actually a highly data-adaptive smoothing and sharpening process. The spread parameter of the fuzzy transformation controls the smoothing level and can be optimized to fit images at different compression levels. The simulation results show that the fuzzy transformation can effectively remove various blocking artifacts and restore the original image monotone surfaces as well as edges with low computational complexity.

Keywords

computational complexity; data compression; discrete cosine transforms; fuzzy set theory; image coding; image denoising; smoothing methods; transform coding; DCT coded; data-adaptive smoothing process; fuzzy ordering theory; fuzzy transformation; image deblocking problem; sharpening process; Computational complexity; Discrete cosine transforms; Distribution functions; Filters; Fuzzy control; Image coding; Image restoration; Smoothing methods; Statistics; Strontium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2003. ICME '03. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7965-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2003.1220974

Filename

1220974