Fast Motion Estimation With Interpolation-Free Sub-Sample Accuracy

Authors:
S. Dikbas;T. Arici;Y. Altunbasak
Affiliations:
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA;-;-
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this letter, a new fast motion estimation (FME) algorithm capable of producing sub-sample motion vectors at low computational-complexity is proposed. Unlike existing FME algorithms, the proposed algorithm considers the low complexity sub-sample accuracy in designing the search pattern for FME. The proposed FME algorithm is designed in such a way that the block distortion measure is modeled as a parametric surface in the vicinity of the integer-sample motion vector; this modeling enables low computational-complexity sub-sample motion estimation (ME) without pixel interpolation. Experimental results on video test sequences show that the proposed FME algorithm reduces computational complexity of integer and sub-sample ME considerably compared with traditional methods at the cost of negligible performance degradation.