MULTI-TYPE PARALLELIZED SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET IN VIDEO CODING

In general, techniques are described for performing multiple passes of sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering when coding video data. A video decoding device comprising one or more processors may perform the techniques. The processors may determine a first SAO pixel classification for a block of video data and determine a first offset value based on the first SAO pixel classification and one or more pixel values of the block. The one or more processors may also determine a second SAO pixel classification for the block and determine a second offset value based on the second SAO pixel classification and the one or more pixel values of block of video data. The processors may then apply the first offset value and the second offset value to the block of video data to generate a block of SAO filtered video data.