Parallel deblocking filter for HEVC on many‐core processor.

High‐efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the next generation standard of video coding. The deblocking filter (DF) constitutes a significant part of the HEVC decoder complexity. A three‐step parallel framework (TPF) is proposed for the H.264/AVC DF, which is also suitable for HEVC except the third step. The third step of the TPF is replaced with a directed acyclic graph‐based order. Experiments show that the proposed method dramatically accelerates more than the state‐of‐the‐art parallel method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]