Low Complexity Motion Estimation Based on Spatio - Temporal Correlations

시간적-공간적 상관성을 이용한 저 복잡도 움직임 추정

  • 윤효순 (전남대학교 전산학과) ;
  • 김미영 (전남도립남도대학 컴퓨터정보통신과) ;
  • 이귀상 (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터정보통신학부)
  • Published : 2004.09.01

Abstract

Motion Estimation(ME) has been developed to reduce temporal redundancy in digital video signals and increase data compression ratio. ME is an Important part of video encoding systems, since it can significantly affect the output quality of encoded sequences. However, ME requires high computational complexity, it is difficult to apply to real time video transmission. for this reason, motion estimation algorithms with low computational complexity are viable solutions. In this paper, we present an efficient method with low computational complexity based on spatial and temporal correlations of motion vectors. The proposed method uses temporally and spatially correlated motion information, the motion vector of the block with the same coordinate in the reference frame and the motion vectors of neighboring blocks around the current block in the current frame, to decide the search pattern and the location of search starting point adaptively. Experiments show that the image quality improvement of the proposed method over MVFAST (Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique) and PMVFAST (Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique) is 0.01~0.3(dB) better and the speedup improvement is about 1.12~l.33 times faster which resulted from lower computational complexity.

움직임 추정은 동영상내에 존재하는 중복된 데이타를 제거하기 때문에 비디오 영상 압축에서 중요한 역할을 하지만 높은 계산 복잡도로 인하여 실시간 영상 전송에 많은 어려움을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해서는 낮은 계산 복잡도를 지닌 움직임 추정 기법들이 필요한데, 본 논문에서는 현재 블록과 높은 시간적, 공간적 상관성을 가지고 있는 블록들의 움직임 벡터들, 즉 참조 프레임에서 동일한 위치에 있는 블록의 움직임 벡터와 현재 프레임에서 현재 블록의 이웃에 있는 블록들의 움직임 벡터들을 이용하여 현재 블록의 탐색 시작점과 탐색 패턴을 적응적으로 결정하여 움직임 벡터를 추정하는 움직임 추정 기법을 제안한다. 실험을 통하여, 제안된 기법을 낮은 계산 복잡도를 지닌 움직임 벡터 필드 적응적 탐색 기법 (Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique : MVFAST)과 예측된 움직임 벡터필드 적응적 탐색 기법(Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique : PMVFAST)과 비교하였을 경우, 제안된 기법은 약 0.01~0.3 (dB) 정도의 화질 향상과 낮은 계산 복잡도로 인하여 약 1.12~l.33 배의 속도 향상을 보였다.

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