Method and apparatus for video coding

An apparatus for video decoding, comprising:

• processing circuitry configured to:
• decode coded information for a reconstructed sample of a current component in a current picture from a coded video bitstream, the coded information indicating a sample offset filter to be applied to the reconstructed sample, a filter shape of the sample offset filter being one of a plurality of filter shapes, each of the plurality of filter shapes including first reconstructed samples of a first component in the current picture;
• determine an output value of the sample offset filter based on the first reconstructed samples in the filter shape;
• and
• determine a filtered sample value of the reconstructed sample of the current component based on the reconstructed sample and the output value of the sample offset filter, wherein
• the sample offset filter is an in-loop filter by which the output value is applied to the reconstructed sample as an offset to filter out coding artifacts while retaining details of the current component in the current picture, and
• a number of the first reconstructed samples in each of the plurality of filter shapes is 3.