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An Efficient Partial Distortion Search Algorithm using the Spatial and Temporal Correlations for Fast Motion Estimation  

Ha, Dong-Won (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Cho, Hyo-Moon (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Lee, Jong-Hwa (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Abstract
In video standards such as H.264/AVC, motion estimation (ME) / compensation (MC) is regarded as a vital component in a video coder as it consumes a large amount of computation resources. The full search technique, which is used in general video codecs, gives the highest visual quality but also has the problem of significant computational load. To solve this problem, many fast algorithm has benn proposed. Among them, NPDS show that can maintain its video quality very close to the full search technique while achieving computation reduction by using a halfway-stop technique in the calculation of block distortion measure. In this paper, we proposed algorithm by determining minimum distortion measure with predictive motion vector and using the new search order. As the result, we can check that the proposed algorithm reduces the computational load 95% in average compared to the full search, respectively with the PSNR lost about 0.04dB.
Keywords
H.264/AVC; Noarmalized Parital Distortion Search(NPDS); Median predictor;
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