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An 8x8-Block Based Motion Using Kalman Filter
It is now quite common in the pel-recursive approaches for motion estimation, to find applications of the Kalman filtering technique both in time and frequency domains. In the block-based approach, very few approaches are available of this technique to refine the estimation of motion vectors resulting from fast algorithms such as the three step on a 16x16-block basis. This paper proposes an 8x8-block based motion estimation which uses the Kalman filtering technique to improve the motion estimates resulting from both the three step algorithm and the 16x16-block based Kalman application of . The statespace representation uses a first order auto-regressive model. Comparative results obtained for different classes of video sequences are presented.
A new block-based motion estimation algorithm
Signal Processing: Image Communication, 1992
The conventional motion estimation algorithms used in digital television coding can roughly be classified into two categories, namely the block-matching method and the recursive method. Each of them has its own strong points. In this paper, a new type of block-based motion estimation algorithm is presented, which is based on the block-recursive (gradient) method and makes use of some of the merits of the block-matching method. For a moderate translational motion, motion estimation with a subpel precision can conveniently be obtained with only a couple of recursive searches, and for a violent or complicated motion which cannot be estimated by any block-based algorithm, the local minimum of prediction errors can always be found. Our experiments show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and reliable, and obviously superior to the conventional block-recursive algorithms and the fast block-matching algorithms. The performance of the proposed algorithm tends almost to the optimum of the full search algorithm with the same estimation precision, but the computational effort is much less than that of the full search algorithm.
A New Pel-Recursive Kalman-Based Motion Estimation Method
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Architectural Study of a Block-Recursive Motion Estimation Algorithm
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Architectural Study of a Block-Recursive Motion Estimation Algorithm he block-recursive algorithm for motion estimation is an option to classical methods like blockmatching usually used in conventional coding schemes based on motion compensation. The Tbl ock-recursive algorithm considered in this study has been developed at IRISA in the Temis group. It is composed of three steps: estimation, deterministic relaxation, and quadtree region splitting. These steps are iteratively executed until convergence. To be fully exploitable, a specialized VLSI architecture for motion estimation must satisfy the following features: real-time performance, modularity, easy external interfacing, flexibility and reduced internal complexity. In this paper, we analyse these different features with regards to the numerous parameters of the considered block-recursive algorithm. The influence of parameters on the quality of the coding algorithm is measured through numerous simulations. Architectural mechanisms required for an efficient implementation are also presented and discussed. This study falls within the framework for derivation of a specialized parallel architecture from the initial sequential algorithm specification.
Performance Analysis of Block Based Motion Estimation Algorithms Using MATLAB
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A Novel Hybrid Approach for Fast Block Based Motion Estimation
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Sub-pixel motion estimation plays a vital role in a multitude of video applications, including encoding, audiovisual archiving/heritage and super-resolution enhancement. Most existing block-based methods rely on the implicit assumption that blocks can be accurately predicted through appropriate shifts. In particular, shifted blocks in the target frame are estimated from the associated anchor frame blocks. The present paper introduces a different strategy, which discards this assumption and treats anchor and target frame blocks equally, as sub-pixel shifted versions of an unavailable implied block. The new method attempts to construct this implied block and, by calculating the "imaginary" motion vectors that relate it to the two existing blocks, it estimates the wanted motion vectors more accurately. This approach aims at extracting motion vectors that more accurately represent the actual movements of objects, minimizing the interpolation error that is associated with sub-pixel shifting, which manifests as blurring and a lowering of contrast. The new method focuses on accurate motion estimation, paying less attention to the associated computational load. Hence, the approach is both inspired from, and proposed for, super-resolution enhancement scenarios, where higher definition motion image sequences are estimated from their available lower definition counterparts. In order to implement the new strategy, an algorithm for reversing the bilinear sub-pixel shift of a block (unshifting) is implemented and validated. Comparisons between original blocks of images and blocks that have been shifted and unshifted back to their original coordinates showcase the accuracy of the unshifting process. The proposed motion estimation method is evaluated through a number of different experimental assessment procedures and metrics, comparing it to existing high-accuracy state-of-theart motion estimation methods.