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Low Complexity Motion Estimation Based on Spatio - Temporal Correlations  

Yoon Hyo-Sun (전남대학교 전산학과)
Kim Mi-Young (전남도립남도대학 컴퓨터정보통신과)
Lee Guee-Sang (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터정보통신학부)
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.
Keywords
Motion Estimation; Motion Vector; Block Matching Algorithm; Temporal Correlation; Spatial Correlation;
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