Specification of hierarchical-model-based fast quarter-pixel motion estimation

Junsang Cho; Jung W. Suh; Gwanggil Jeon; Jechang Jeong

doi:10.1117/1.3454389

1 June 2010 Specification of hierarchical-model-based fast quarter-pixel motion estimation

Junsang Cho, Jung W. Suh, Gwanggil Jeon, Jechang Jeong

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 6, 067003 (June 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3454389

Abstract

We propose a robust and fast quarter-pixel motion estimation algorithm. This algorithm is an advanced version of the previously proposed model-based quarter-pixel motion estimation (MBQME). MBQME has many advantages in computational complexity, running speed, and hardware implementations. But it has the problem that it does not find the quarter-pixel positions that locate beyond the half-pixel positions. That is one of limitations of model-based motion estimation methods, and it leads to both peak-SNR degradation and bit-rate increase. To solve this problem, we propose a hierarchical mathematical model with minimum interpolations. Through this model, we can determine a motion vector at every quarter-pixel point, which is perfectly compatible with the quarter-pixel motion estimation method within international video coding standards such as MPEG-4 and H.264/AVC. The simulation results show that the proposed method yields almost the same or even better peak-SNR performance than that of full-search quarter-pixel motion estimation, with much lower computational complexity.

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Junsang Cho, Jung W. Suh, Gwanggil Jeon, and Jechang Jeong "Specification of hierarchical-model-based fast quarter-pixel motion estimation," Optical Engineering 49(6), 067003 (1 June 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3454389

Published: 1 June 2010

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