Adaptive Search Range Decision and Early Termination for Multiple Reference Frame Motion Estimation for H.264

Gwo-Long LI; Mei-Juan CHEN

doi:10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.1.250

Adaptive Search Range Decision and Early Termination for Multiple Reference Frame Motion Estimation for H.264

Gwo-Long LI, Mei-Juan CHEN

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The newest video coding standard called H.264 provides considerable performance improvement over a wide range of bit rates and video resolutions compared to previous standards. However, these features result in an extraordinary increase in encoder complexity, mainly regarding to mode decision and multiple reference frame motion estimation (ME). This letter presents two algorithms to reduce the computational complexity caused by motion estimation. The adaptive search range decision method determines the search range size according to the motion vector predictor dynamically and the early termination scheme defines a criterion to early terminate the search processing for multiple reference frames. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms provide significant improvement of coding speed with negligible objective quality degradation compared to the fast motion estimation algorithms adopted by reference software.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E89-B No.1 pp.250-253

Publication Date: 2006/01/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.1.250

Type of Manuscript: LETTER

Category: Multimedia Systems for Communications" Multimedia Systems for Communications

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Gwo-Long LI, Mei-Juan CHEN, "Adaptive Search Range Decision and Early Termination for Multiple Reference Frame Motion Estimation for H.264" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E89-B, no. 1, pp. 250-253, January 2006, doi: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.1.250.
Abstract: The newest video coding standard called H.264 provides considerable performance improvement over a wide range of bit rates and video resolutions compared to previous standards. However, these features result in an extraordinary increase in encoder complexity, mainly regarding to mode decision and multiple reference frame motion estimation (ME). This letter presents two algorithms to reduce the computational complexity caused by motion estimation. The adaptive search range decision method determines the search range size according to the motion vector predictor dynamically and the early termination scheme defines a criterion to early terminate the search processing for multiple reference frames. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithms provide significant improvement of coding speed with negligible objective quality degradation compared to the fast motion estimation algorithms adopted by reference software.
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