Optimizing motion estimation in MPEG-2 standard
2018-09-03T10:16:20Z (GMT)
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An efficient compression algorithm is vital for storage and transmission of video
signal. Many video coding standards such as ISO MPEG-1/2 and ITU-T
H.261/262/263 apply block motion estimation and compensation algorithms to exploit
temporal redundancies where reduction is the key to high performance in video
coding. The full search algorithm is a brute force for block motion estimation method
used in the standards. It offers the best quality so far but its high computational
complexity makes it unsuitable for real-time implementations. This thesis proposes
and demonstrates a new scanning order that will minimize the computational
complexity of the matching process especially in full search algorithm either with
similar or acceptable degradation in quality performance. [Continues.]