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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JEB.2012.17.1.165

Motion Vector Coding Using Adaptive Motion Resolution  

Jang, Myung-Hun (Sejong University, Dept. of Information and Comm. Engineering)
Seo, Chan-Won (Sejong University, Dept. of Information and Comm. Engineering)
Han, Jong-Ki (Sejong University, Dept. of Information and Comm. Engineering)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.17, no.1, 2012 , pp. 165-178 More about this Journal
Abstract
In most conventional video codecs, such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, inter coding is performed with the fixed motion vector resolution. When KTA software was developed, resolution for MVs can be selected in each slice. Although KTA codec uses a variety of resolutions for ME, the selected resolution is applied over the entire pixels in the slice and the statistical property of the local area is not considered. In this paper, we propose an adaptive decision scheme for motion vector resolution which depends on region, where MV search area is divided to multiple regions according to the distance from PMV. In each region, the assigned resolution is used to estimate MV. Each region supports different resolution for ME from other regions. The efficiency of the proposed scheme is affected from threshold values to divide the search area and the entropy coding method to encode the estimated MV. Simulation results with HM3.0 which is the reference software of HEVC show that the proposed scheme provides bit rate gains of 0.9%, 0.6%, and 2.9% in Random Access, Low Delay with B picture, and Low Delay with P picture structures, respectively.
Keywords
Motion Vector Resolution; Motion Estimation; Motion Vector Coding;
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