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Fast Motion Estimation with Adaptive Search Range Adjustment using Motion Activities of Temporal and Spatial Neighbor Blocks  

Lee, Sang-Hak (동양대학교 정보통신공학부)
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The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences / v.5, no.4, 2010 , pp. 372-378 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper propose the fast motion estimation algorithm with adaptive search range adjustment using motion activities of temporal and spatial neighbor blocks. The existing fast motion estimation algorithms with adaptive search range adjustment use the maximum motion vector of all blocks in the reference frame. So these algorithms may not control a optimum search range for slow moving block in current frame. The proposed algorithm use the maximum motion vector of neighbor blocks in the reference frame to control a optimum search range for slow moving block. So the proposed algorithm can reduce computation time for motion estimation. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the number of search points about 15% more than Simple Dynamic Search Range(SDSR) algorithm while maintaining almost the same bit-rate and motion estimation error.
Keywords
H.264/AVC; MPEG-4; motion estimation; search range;
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