Motion estimation and compensation based on region-constrained warping prediction

Dong-Il Chang; Joon Hyun Sung; Jeong Kwon Kim; ChoongWoong Lee

doi:10.1117/12.298320

9 January 1998 Motion estimation and compensation based on region-constrained warping prediction

Dong-Il Chang, Joon Hyun Sung, Jeong Kwon Kim, ChoongWoong Lee

Proceedings Volume 3309, Visual Communications and Image Processing '98; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298320
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The visually annoying artifacts resulting form block matching algorithm (BMA), blocky artifacts, become noticeable in applications for low bit rates. Warping prediction (WP) based schemes can remove the blocky artifacts of BMA successfully, but they also produce severe prediction errors around the boundaries of moving objects. Since the errors around the boundaries of objects are visually sensitive, they may sometimes look more annoying than blocky artifacts. The lack of ability of modeling motion discontinuities is the major reason of the errors from WP. Motion discontinuities usually exist in practical video sequences, so that it is required to develop a more reliable motion estimation and usually exist in practical video sequences, so that it is required to develop a more reliable motion estimation and compensation scheme for low bit rate applications. In this paper, we propose a new WP scheme, named region constrained warping prediction (RCWP), which places motion discontinuities according to the segmentation results. In RCWP, there is mutual dependency between estimated motion field and segmentation mask. Because of the mutual dependency, an iterative refinement process is also introduced. Experimental results have shown that the proposed algorithm can provide much better subjective and objective performance than the BMA and the conventional warping prediction.

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Dong-Il Chang, Joon Hyun Sung, Jeong Kwon Kim, and ChoongWoong Lee "Motion estimation and compensation based on region-constrained warping prediction", Proc. SPIE 3309, Visual Communications and Image Processing '98, (9 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298320

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