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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2007.12.3.278

Direction-Oriented Fast Full Search Algorithm at the Divided Search Range  

Lim, Dong-Young (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Park, Sang-Jun (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
Jeong, Je-Chang (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.12, no.3, 2007 , pp. 278-288 More about this Journal
Abstract
We propose the fast full search algorithm that reduces the computational load of the block matching algorithm which is used for a motion estimation in the video coding. Since the conventional spiral search method starts searching at the center of the search window and then moves search point to estimate the motion vector pixel by pixel, it is good for the slow motion picture. However we proposed the efficient motion estimation method which is good for the fast and slow motion picture. Firstly, when finding the initial threshold value, we use the expanded predictor that can approximately calculate minimum threshold value. The proposed algorithm estimates the motion in the new search order after partitioning the search window and adapt the directional search order in the re-divided search window. At the result, we can check that the proposed algorithm reduces the computational load 94% in average compared to the conventional spiral full search algorithm without any loss of image quality.
Keywords
BMA; Full Search; Fast Algorithm; Motion Estimation; MSEA;
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