• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.87-95
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a fast multi-resolution motion estimation(MRME) algorithm. This algorithm exploits the half-pixel accuracy motion estimation(HPAME) for exact motion vectors in the baseband and block classification for the reduction of bit amounts and computational loads. Generally, as the motion vector in the baseband are used as initial motion vector in the high frequency subbands, it has crucial effect on quality of the motion compensated image. For this reason, we exploit HPAME in the motion estimation for the baseband. But HPAME requires additional bit and computational loads so that we use block classification for the selective motion estimation in the high frequency subbands to compensate these problems. In result, we could reduce the bit rate and computational load at the similar image quality with conventional MRME. The superiority of the proposed algorithm was confirmed by the computer simulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.10B
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• pp.1813-1820
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• 2000

In this paper we proposed an efficient multiresolution motion estimation(MRME) algorithm using half-pixel accuracy motion estimation (HPAME) and characteristics of motion vectors in the baseband. Conventional MRME method needs exact motion vectors in the baseband because those are used as initial motion vectors in higher frequency subbands. Therefore the proposed method uses HPAME to estimate the motion vectors exactly in the baseband. Based on the characteristics of these motion vectors the motion vectors in the higher frequency subbands are selectively estimatied. That is motion vectors in the higher frequency subbands are estimated only for the blocks which have the half-pixel accuracy motion vectors in the baseband. In the proposed method by using HPAME in the baseband and selective motion estimation in the higher frequency subbands we can obtain reconstructed image with the similar quality with the conventional method though we reduce the computational complexity and the bit rate considerably.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a new method for reducing the computational overhead of fine-to-coarse multi-resolution motion estimation (MRME) at the finest resolution level by searching for the region to consider motion vectors of the coarsest resolution subband. At this time, if half-pel accuracy motion estimation (HPAME) is used in the baseband where influence a lot of effect to the reconstructed image, we can have the motion vector exactly But, this method causes to higher computational overhead. So we suggest the method to the computational overhead by using selective interpolation. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm gives better results than the traditional algorithms from image quality.