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Blocking Artefacts

Definition

Visible rectangular discontinuities at 8x8 block boundaries, caused by independent quantisation of adjacent blocks. At splice boundaries, misaligned block grids produce a detectable phase shift.

Related terms

DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform)
The mathematical transformation applied to each 8x8 pixel block during JPEG compression, converting spatial pixel values into a set of frequency coefficients...
Double JPEG Compression
The situation where an image has been JPEG-encoded, decoded to a bitmap, and then JPEG-encoded again. The second quantisation step leaves a...
JPEG Ghost
A visualisation technique introduced by Farid (2009) that reveals regions compressed at a quality factor different from the rest of the image....
Quality Factor
The 1-100 scale that most JPEG encoders expose to the user, controlling how aggressively the quantisation table rounds coefficients. The factor is...
Quantisation Table
A matrix of 64 integer divisors, one per DCT coefficient position, that controls how much each frequency component is rounded during JPEG...

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