Video Coding for Mobile Communications: Efficiency, Complexity, and Resillience
Video Coding for Mobile Communications: Efficiency, Complexity, and Resillience
A new diamond search algorithm for fast block-matching motion estimation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A novel four-step search algorithm for fast block motion estimation
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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Block-based motion estimation can be regarded as a function minimization problem in a finite two-dimensional space. Therefore, fast block-based motion estimation can be achieved by using an efficient function minimization algorithm instead of using a predefined search pattern, such as the diamond search. The downhill simplex search algorithm is an efficient derivative-free function minimization algorithm. In this paper, we propose several enhanced schemes to improve the efficiency of applying the downhill simplex search algorithm to motion estimation. The proposed enhanced schemes include a new initialization process, a special rounding method, and an early-stop error function evaluation procedure. Experimental results on several benchmarking videos show superior performance of the proposed algorithm over some existing fast block matching methods.