Video Coding Pre-Processing for Noise-Aware Compression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video compression techniques face challenges in achieving high coding efficiency and maintaining video quality due to increased image size, resolution, and frame rate, which are exacerbated by noise and high resolution in input videos, leading to reduced coding efficiency and degraded video quality.
Innovation Solution
A video coding method and apparatus that utilize pre-processing and post-processing based on a perceptual noise model to enhance video quality and improve coding efficiency by modeling perceptual visual characteristics, involving denoising and noise parameter estimation, and applying bilateral filtering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If video compression techniques are applied to handle large image size, resolution, and frame rate, then data transmission and storage efficiency is improved, but video quality is degraded due to noise and high resolution requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies pre-processing techniques before encoding to remove noise and reduce video resolution. This preliminary action prepares the video data in advance, reducing the burden on the encoding process and preventing quality degradation while maintaining coding efficiency. The pre-processing step handles noise removal and resolution adjustment before the main compression workflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent converts the harmful effect of noise in video data into a benefit by using noise modeling and removal techniques. Instead of letting noise degrade quality, the system models the noise characteristics and removes it, transforming a harmful factor into an opportunity for quality enhancement while improving compression efficiency.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If noise removal and pre-processing are applied to improve video quality, then subjective video quality is enhanced, but processing complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses parameter-based noise modeling where noise characteristics are represented through specific parameters that can be estimated and manipulated. By changing and optimizing these parameters during pre-processing, the system achieves quality enhancement without requiring overly complex processing, as the noise removal is guided by parameter optimization rather than exhaustive computation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the processing results are evaluated and used to adjust subsequent processing steps. This feedback loop allows the system to achieve quality enhancement efficiently by learning from intermediate results and optimizing the pre-processing parameters, reducing the need for excessive processing complexity.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If high resolution and frame rate are maintained to improve video quality, then perceptual quality is preserved, but data amount and hardware resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary resolution adjustment and noise removal before encoding, which allows the system to work with reduced data amounts while preserving perceptual quality. By preparing the video data in advance with appropriate resolution scaling and noise reduction, the system reduces the quantity of data that needs to be processed and transmitted, while maintaining the essential perceptual quality characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent optimizes video parameters such as resolution and frame rate based on perceptual quality requirements rather than simply maintaining original high specifications. By changing these parameters intelligently based on content analysis and quality requirements, the system reduces data amount while preserving the perceptual quality that matters most to viewers.
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AI summary
A method and an apparatus for video coding using pre-processing and post-processing are disclosed. The video coding method and the apparatus may model a noise model or a subjective video quality model for a current video, may pre-process and post-process a video on the basis of the model, and may signal information of the model.


