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In this context, it is necessary to carefully review the recently completed MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC) standard because the EVC Baseline profile is customized to meet the specific requirements needed to process IoT video data in terms of low complexity. Nevertheless, the EVC Baseline profile has a notable disadvantage. Since it is a codec composed only of simple tools developed over 20 years, it tends to represent numerous coding artifacts. In particular, the presence of blocking artifacts at the block boundary is regarded as a critical issue that must be addressed. To address this, this paper proposes a post-filter using a block partitioning information-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed method in the experimental results objectively shows an approximately 0.57 dB for All-Intra (AI) and 0.37 dB for Low-Delay (LD) improvements in each configuration by the proposed method when compared to the pre-post-filter video, and the enhanced PSNR results in an overall bitrate reduction of 11.62% for AI and 10.91% for LD in the Luma and Chroma components, respectively. Due to the huge improvement in the PSNR, the proposed method significantly improved the visual quality subjectively, particularly in blocking artifacts at the coding block boundary.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24041336","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,19]],"date-time":"2024-02-19T05:39:56Z","timestamp":1708321196000},"page":"1336","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Block Partitioning Information-Based CNN Post-Filtering for EVC Baseline Profile"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2869-0440","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kiho","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 17104, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 17104, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"90878","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2020.2993646","article-title":"The why, what, and how of immersive experience","volume":"8","author":"Zhang","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"(2023, October 10). 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