Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Dynamic dithering for video compression
A method and device for dithering video from a decoder. The method and device provide: selecting a segment of video frames from the video; computing a noise map for the segment of the video, the noise map computed from differences among pixels selected from spatially-distributed sampling patterns in the segment; determining contours of quantization artifacts within the video frame based on the noise map and a histogram of pixel values in the video frame; computing a gradient measurement of pixel values along the contours; identifying regions along the contours of quantization artifacts to apply dithering based on the noise map and the gradient measurement; determining a dithering strength based on the noise map and the gradient measurement; and applying dithering noise to the identified regions at the determined dithering strength.
Apple Inc.
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Xiaosong Hsi-Jung James Oliver Xiaojin Ionut Gianluca
Zhou Wu Normile Shi Hristodorescu Filippini