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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2005.12B.2.131

A Fast Half Pixel Motion Estimation Method based on the Correlations between Integer pixel MVs and Half pixel MVs  

Yoon HyoSun (전남대학교 전산학과)
Lee GueeSang (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터정보통신공학부)
Abstract
Motion Estimation (ME) has been developed to remove redundant data contained in a sequence of image. And ME is an important part of video encoding systems, since it can significantly affect the qualify of an encoded sequences. Generally, ME consists of two stages, the integer pixel motion estimation and the half pixel motion estimation. Many methods have been developed to reduce the computational complexity at the integer pixel motion estimation. However, the studies are needed at the half pixel motion estimation to reduce the complexity. In this paper, a method based on the correlations between integer pixel motion vectors and half pixel motion vectors is proposed for the half pixel motion estimation. The proposed method has less computational complexity than the full half pixel search method (FHSM) that needs the bilinear interpolation of half pixels and examines nine half pixel points to the find the half pixel motion vector. Experimental results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over FHSM can be up to $2.5\~80$ times faster and the image quality degradation is about to $0.07\~0.69(dB)$.
Keywords
움직임 추정;움직임 벡터;블록 정합 기법;
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