JPEG and MPEG compression standards adopt the macro block encoding approach, but this method can lead to annoying blocking effects-the artificial rectangular discontinuities in the decoded images. Many powerful postprocessing algorithms have been developed to remove the blocking effects. However, all but the simplest algorithms can be too complex for real-time applications, such as video decoding. We propose an adaptive and easy-to-implement algorithm that can removes the artificial discontinuities. This algorithm contains two steps, firstly, to perform a fast linear smoothing of the block edge's pixel by average value replacement strategy, the next one, by comparing the variance that is derived from the difference of the processed image with a reasonable threshold, to determine whether the first step should stop or not. Experiments have proved that this algorithm can quickly remove the artificial discontinuities without destroying the key information of the decoded images, it is robust to different images and transform strategy.
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