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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2013.16.5.539

Low Complexity Motion Estimation Search Method for Multi-view Video Coding  

Yoon, Hyo-Sun (전남대학교 전자컴퓨터공학부)
Kim, Mi-Young (전남도립대학교 보건의료과)
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Abstract
Although Motion estimation (ME) plays an important role in digital video compression, it requires a complicated search procedure to find an optimal motion vector. Multi-view video is obtained by capturing one three-dimensional scene with many cameras at different positions. The computational complexity of motion estimation for Multi-view video coding increases in proportion to the number of cameras. To reduce computational complexity and maintain the image quality, a low complexity motion estimation search method is proposed in this paper. The proposed search method consists of four-grid diamond search patten, two-gird diamond search pattern and TZ 2 Point search pattern. These search patterns exploit the characteristics of the distribution of motion vectors to place the search points. Experiment results show that the speedup improvement of the proposed method over TZ search method (JMVC) can be up to 1.8~4.5 times faster by reducing the computational complexity and the image quality degradation is about to 0.01~0.24 (dB).
Keywords
motion estimation; video compression; motion vector; multi-view video coding;
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