Title
Preprocessing of video signals for MPEG coding by clustering filter
Abstract
We describe an application of the clustering filter to image sequence preprocessing for MPEG encoding. Since noise is unavoidable and compression is lossy, we propose and demonstrate that one can obtain better picture quality if one takes out noise before the video signal is fed into an encoder. This is where our contribution differs from previous work on preprocessing. We test our schemes on digital video in the CCIR 601 format converted from film using a standard telecine process. The results show that the motion estimation is more effective and motion-compensated difference signal is easier to encode, resulting in higher quality at a fixed bit rate or lower bit rate at a fixed quality
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/ICIP.1995.537431
ICIP
Keywords
Field
DocType
picture quality,motion compensation,fixed quality,telecommunication standards,noise,better picture quality,mpeg coding,clustering filter,data compression,motion-compensated difference signal,digital video,motion estimation,image sequence preprocessing,ccir 601 format,bit rate,mpeg encoding,digital filters,video coding,image sequences,lower bit rate,interference suppression,telecine process,higher quality,video signal,fixed bit rate,film,video signals,noise reduction,filtering,video compression
Computer vision,Telecine,Digital filter,Lossy compression,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Motion compensation,MPEG encoding,Encoder,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Data compression
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
0-8186-7310-9
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiu-fai Isaac Wong16216.77
Viscito, E.23412.86
E.N. Linzer3354.61