Higher order prediction for sub-pixel motion estimation

Damith J. Mudugamuwa, Xiangjian He, Chung Hyun Ahn, Jie Yang

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Abstract

Estimating motion between two frames of a video sequence, up to sub-pixel accuracy, is a critical task for many image processing applications. Efficient block matching algorithms were proposed in [1, 4, 5, 6] for motion estimation up to pixel accuracy. Applying these fast block search algorithms to up-sampled and interpolated frames can produce good results but with significant increase in computations. To reduce the number of search points, and therefore the computational cost, quadratic prediction was proposed earlier [1, 2] to predict the location of minimum block matching error, and then to limit the search window to the vicinity of the predicted location. In this paper we investigate the typical behavior of block matching error surface and propose an improved higher order prediction that models the error surface more accurately, utilizing additional local image behavior. Initial experiments have proved promising results of about 50% more improvement in PSNR compared to quadratic prediction with only a marginal increase in the computational cost.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1585-1588
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424456543
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Duration: 7 Nov 200910 Nov 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009
Country/TerritoryEgypt
CityCairo
Period7/11/0910/11/09

Keywords

  • Image registration
  • Sub-pixel motion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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