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    Chao Liu Headshot
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    Chao Liu
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    Fudan University
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    Chao Liu
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    Fudan University
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    Heming Sun
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    Waseda University
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    Jiro Katto
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    Waseda University
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    Xiaoyang Zeng
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    Fudan University
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    Yibo Fan
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    Fudan University
    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. Compared with VVenC anchor, only one CNN filter is used and achieves about 3.6% BD-rate reduction for random-access configuration. Also, about 0.8% BD-rate reduction is achieved compared with the previous QP-map method.

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    • A QP-Adaptive Mechanism for CNN-Based Filter in Video Coding (application/pdf)