The image processing apparatus and method

The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, which can suppress the filtering process to reduce local control of the filter processing at the time of encoding or decoding caused by the effect. The control information generation unit 112 a boundary flag generation unit 132 according to the control system specification management system specification information management unit 141 generates a control flag boundaries. The control unit 171 of the adaptive filtering process control unit 113 based on the boundary value of the flag, filter processing method determination processing performed for the vicinity of the sheet boundary pixels. For example, selecting a filtering process across the sheets, or in the current slice off filtering process. The present invention is applicable to, for example, the image processing apparatus.