Frame Similarity-Based Screen Content Video Quality Enhancement via Adaptive Long Short-Term Fusion
Ziyin Huang, Yui‐Lam Chan, Ngai-Wing Kwong, Sik‐Ho Tsang, Kin‐Man Lam, Bingo Wing‐Kuen Ling · 2024
Compressed screen content videos often exhibit artifacts in edge areas and suffer from distortions during scene switches, where content abruptly changes between frames. Existing multi-frame models, which use a fixed range of neighbor frames, struggle with these switches. To address this, we propose a novel method that effectively handles scene switches. Our approach utilizes Long-term Feature Extraction (LFE) to capture contextual information, while the Frame Similarity-based Short-term Feature Extraction (FSFE) focuses on texture information to manage fast motion and scene switches. In FSFE, a Similarity-based Neighbor Frame Selector (SNFS) is designed to choose relevant neighbor frames for the short-term stream, enhancing the quality of scene switch frames. To fuse short-term and long-term features adaptively, we introduce a local-spatial and global-channel attention module, which recalibrates spatial and channel-wise feature responses. Experimental results show that our Frame Similarity-Based via Adaptive Long Short-Term Fusion (FSLST) method significantly improves the quality of compressed videos, outperforming current state-of-the-art methods.