近年來多媒體通訊廣泛地應用影像壓縮的技術以減少儲存的資訊量和網路傳輸的負
載。大部分的壓縮演算法會先把影像切割成大小相同的方塊，再對每個方塊進行離散餘
弦轉換，並且分別量化每個方塊離散餘弦轉換後的係數。然而這種方法卻會在還原影像
的方塊邊緣上造成明顯可見的方塊效應。有鑑於此，本論文提出一個高效能的演算法，
可以偵測出方塊的大小和方塊邊界的位置，並有效地去除方塊效應。此演算法毋需得知
壓縮的參數及標準，只須利用影像中的部分資料分批進行運算，故非常適合硬體實作。
經實驗結果證明，此演算法對於不同的測試影像，皆較其他演算法有穩定及精準的表現。

In order to reduce the storage and transmission costs, image compression has been widely
used in multimedia communication. Most compression methods employ block-based DCT
transform and quantize the DCT coefficients independently. However, it leads to visible
artifacts along block boundaries in the decompressed image. In this thesis, we propose an
algorithm to detect the block size and block boundary position of the decompressed image,
and remove the blocking artifacts by directional filter and low-pass filter. Our algorithm can
applied to various compression specifications without knowing any compression parameters.
Moreover, the segment-based procedure of our algorithm is extremely suitable for hardware
implementation. The simulation results show that our algorithm can effectively detect the
block size and block boundary position among different test images and has the more
outstanding performance in comparison with three existing methods.

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