Method and Apparatus for Selective Filtering of Cubic-Face Frames

An apparatus for processing cube faces, the apparatus comprising one or more electronic circuits or processor arranged to:

• receiving the video bitstream comprising sets of six cubic faces corresponding to a 360-degree panoramic video sequence;
• determining one or more discontinuous boundaries within each cubic frame corresponding to each set of six cubic faces;
• and
• processing the cubic frames according to information related to said one or more discontinuous boundaries, wherein said processing the cubic frames comprises:
• skipping filtering process at said one or more discontinuous boundaries within each cubic frame, wherein whether the filtering process is applied to one or more discontinuous cubic face boundaries in each cubic frame is determined by parsing the syntax of on/off control in the video bitstream.