UnBlock is a method that removes the “blockiness” of heavily or moderately compressed JPEG images.
The C# code implementing UnBlock is completely free to use:
UnBlock has also been used by other researchers on video formats that use a similar block encoding to JPEG. Those results are not contained on this page.
The UnBlock algorithm is described in detail in this research paper.
At the time I developed UnBlock (early 2006), the best existing automatic deblocking filter commercially available was from Pegasus Imaging. Click here to see a "head-to-head" between Pegasus and UnBlock.
The President of Pegasus Imaging publicly stated that UnBlock also out-performed Pegasus’s own patented but unreleased deblocking algorithm.
© 2006–2011 Dr. John P. Costella