An efficient motion estimation technique based on a rate-distortion criterion

  • Authors:

  • W. C. Chung;F. Kossentini;M. J. T. Smith

  • Affiliations:

  • PictureTel Corp., Danvers, MA, USA;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '96 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. on Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference - Volume 04
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We present an efficient motion estimation algorithm where motion vectors are selected based on a rate-distortion criterion. The algorithm minimizes the rate subject to a constraint on overall distortion by optimizing jointly the motion vector coder and the residual coder. As the joint optimization is generally very demanding, we propose methods where the rate-distortion performance of the residual coder is approximated by parametric functions. This results in a substantial reduction in computational complexity while sacrificing only a small loss in performance. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm can improve the performance of H.261- and H.263-based video coders significantly while still generating H.261/H.263 decodable bit streams, respectively.