Video Coding Using Elastic Motion Model and Larger Blocks

  • Authors:
  • A. A. Muhit;M. R. Pickering;M. R. Frater;J. F. Arnold

  • Affiliations:
  • Sch. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, ACT, Australia;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Motion-compensated prediction is the key to high-performance video coding. Previous works have explored alternatives to the classical translational motion model in video coding, but the cumulative rate-distortion performance has not been significant enough to see such approaches adopted in mainstream standards. In this paper, we propose a new extended prediction strategy that incorporates non-translational motion prediction. This method uses an elastic motion model with 2-D cosine basis functions to estimate non-translational motion between the blocks. To achieve superior performance, the proposed scheme takes advantage of larger blocks with multi-level partitioning. Experimental results show that this combined framework outperforms the existing techniques, including those available in the recent H.264 standard.