Title
One-pass computation-aware motion estimation with adaptive search strategy
Abstract
A computation-aware motion estimation algorithm is proposed in this paper. Its goal is to find the best block-matching results in a computation-limited and computation-variant environment. Our algorithm is characterized by a one-pass flow with adaptive search strategy. In the prior scheme, Tsai et al. propose that all macroblocks are processed simultaneously, and more computation is allocated to the macroblock with the largest distortion among the entire frame in a step-by-step fashion. This implies that random access of macroblocks is required, and the related information of neighboring macroblocks cannot be used to be prediction. The random access flow requires a huge memory size for all macroblocks to store the up-to-date minimum distortions, best motion vectors, and searching steps. On the contrary, our one-pass flow processes the macroblocks one by one, which can not only significantly reduce the memory size but also effectively utilize the context information of neighboring macroblocks to achieve faster speed and better quality. Moreover, in order to improve the video quality when the computation resource is still sufficient, the search pattern is allowed to adaptively change from diamond search to three step search, and then to full search. Last but not least, traditional block matching speed-up methods are also combined to provide much better computation-distortion curves
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/TMM.2006.876296
ISCAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Motion estimation,Hardware,Heart,Video sequences,Application software,Digital signal processing,Design engineering,Video coding,Portable computers,Frequency
Macroblock,Computer vision,Block-matching algorithm,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Motion analysis,Motion estimation,Video quality,Deblocking filter,Random access,Computation
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
4
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.88
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ching-Yeh Chen165349.43
Yu-Wen Huang21116114.02
Chia-Lin Lee3231.91
Liang-Gee Chen43637383.22