Modified one-bit transform for motion estimation

  • Authors:
  • P. H.W. Wong;O. C. Au

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Clear Water Bay;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Motion estimation using the one-bit transform (1BT) was proposed by Natarajan, Bhaskaran and Konstantinides (see ibid., vol.7, p.702-06, 1997) to achieve large computation reduction. However, it degrades the predicted image by almost 1 dB as compared with full search. We propose a modification to the 1BT by adding conditional local searches. Simulation results show that the proposed modification improves the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) significantly at the expense of slightly increased computational complexity. A variant of the proposed modification called the multiple-candidate two-step search (M2SSFS) is found to be particularly good for high quality, high bit rate video coding. In the MPEG-1 simulation, its PSNR is within 0.1 dB from that of full search at bit rates higher than 1 Mbit/s with a computation reduction factor of ten