Abstract
In this paper, we propose a generalized DCT-domain spatial downscaling scheme to improve the visual quality. We analyze the filtering performances and computational complexities of the proposed scheme and the pixel-domain downscaling schemes. The analyses show that the proposed scheme can reduce the aliasing artifact compared to the existing schemes, while the computational complexity may be increased. We also integrate the proposed decimation scheme into the cascaded DCT-domain transcoder for spatial downscaling of a pre-encoded video into its quarter size. Experiments show the proposed approach can achieve better visual quality than the existing schemes. © 2005 IEEE.