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Most video data compression standards use block-based motion estimation and the discrete cosine transform. This scheme takes advantage of the local spatial correlation property of images. However, it induces the well-known blocking artifacts, corner outliers, and ringing noise when the image is highly compressed. Conventional 2-D techniques for contrast sharpening cannot be applied to the enhancement...