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Fast Multi-path Motion Estimation Algorithm with Computation Scalability

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Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 2

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 21))

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Developing computation-efficient motion estimation algorithm is always a significant topic in video coding and becomes more important in green computing. It also helps the reduction of power consumption. This paper proposes a fast multi-path motion estimation algorithm to aim at computational complexity reduction and providing various computation choices. We propose an enhanced intersected diamond search algorithm to take the advantages of low computational complexity. The proposed search patterns will decrease the search points for each step. By searching the best matched block with multiple directions, the drawback of being trapped at the local minimum for distortion measure can be solved. With adaptive thresholding for early termination, the proposed algorithm can provide different computations and performances for various video encoders to adapt different kinds of computation abilities. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm with computation scalability can give better performance than diamond search and its multi-path algorithm.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Kuang-Han Tai, Mei-Juan Chen & Haw-Wen Chi

  2. Dept. of Video Coding Core Technology, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Gwo-Long Li

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Tai, KH., Li, GL., Chen, MJ., Chi, HW. (2013). Fast Multi-path Motion Estimation Algorithm with Computation Scalability. In: Pan, JS., Yang, CN., Lin, CC. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 2. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35473-1_28

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