B-DRRN: A Block Information Constrained Deep Recursive Residual Network for Video Compression Artifacts Reduction

Abstract: Although the video compression ratio nowadays becomes higher, the video coders such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC always suffer from the video artifacts. In this paper, we design a neural network to enhance the quality of the compressed frame by leveraging the block information, called B-DRRN (Deep Recursive Residual Network with Block information). Firstly, an extra network branch is designed for leveraging the block information of the coding unit (CU). Moreover, to avoid a great increase in the network size, Recursive Residual structure and sharing weight techniques are applied. We also conduct a new large-scale dataset with 209,152 training samples. Experimental results show that the proposed B-DRRN can reduce 6.16% BD-rate compared to the HEVC standard. After efficiently adding an extra network branch, this work can improve the performance of the main network without increasing any memory for storing.