Performance evaluation of motion estimation in DCT transform domain

  • Authors:
  • Petrescu Catalin-Dumitru;Stefanoiu Dan;Lupu Ciprian

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Automatic Systems and Computer Science, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania;Department of Automatic Systems and Computer Science, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania;Department of Automatic Systems and Computer Science, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Motion estimation is one of the most important steps in video compression algorithms. It reduces temporal redundancy present in frame sequences and allows a better compression of video material. Most of the actual video compression algorithms use "block matching" methods which operate on the bitmap form of the frames. This paper presents a method for computing the values of DCT coefficients of a block of pixels positioned on certain coordinates over four adjacent blocks using only the DCT coefficients of these four blocks. Performance of this method is analyzed for both integer and non-integer displacements. Also, an equivalent of the full-search algorithm translated in 2D-DCT domain is presented.