• 한국통신학회논문지
• /
• 제21권4호
• /
• pp.807-821
• /
• 1996

In this paper, we proposed a nonlinear hierarchical mtion estimation method. Generally, the conventional hierarchical motion estimation methods have been proposed for fast convergence and detection of large motions. But they have a common drawback that large error in motion estimation is propapated across motion discontinuities. This artifiact is due to the constriaint of motion continuity and the linear interpolation of motion vectors between hierarchical levels. In this paper, we propose an effective hierarchical motion estimation mechod that is robust to motion discontinuities. The proposed algorithm is based on the decomposition of the functional domain for optimizing the intra-level motion estimation functional. Also, we propose an inter-level nonlinear motion estimation equation rather than using the conventional linearprojection scheme of motion field. computer simulations with several test sequences show tht the proposed algorithm performs better than several conventional methods.

• 전자공학회논문지B
• /
• 제28B권11호
• /
• pp.913-924
• /
• 1991

In this paper, we propose a motion estimation algorithm using hierarchical structure. The algorithm uses the image pyramids from the repetitive application of Gaussian filtering and decimation, and performs an inter-level displacement propagation in its motion estimation process. The motion estimation algorithm based on the hierarchical structure is shown to be very effective since this scheme utilizes the local imformation as well as the global imformation. The experimental results on the various data imdicate that compared to the Horn and Schunck's method, the proposed algorithm yields an accurate motion estimation with a fast convergence behaviour.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
• /
• 제3권4호
• /
• pp.205-211
• /
• 2014

This paper reports an efficient algorithm for accurate rolling shutter distortion removal. A hierarchical global motion estimation approach for a group of blocks reduces the level of computation by three orders of magnitude. In addition, the motion of each scanline is determined accurately by averaging two candidates obtained through cubic spline interpolation. The experimental results show that the proposed method produces accurate motion information with significant computation reduction and corrects the rolling shutter distortion effectively.

• 전자공학회논문지B
• /
• 제33B권8호
• /
• pp.50-59
• /
• 1996

In this paper, a new hierarchical motion estiamtion scheme using the wavelet transformed multi-resolution image layers is proposed. Compared with the full search motion estimation method, the existing hierarchical methods remarkably reduce the amount of the computation but their efficiencies are depreciated by the local minima problem. In order to solve the local minima problem, the multi-resolution image layers are composed using the wavelet transform and the number of layers participated in the motion estimation for a block is determined by considering of its low band energy and higher band energy on the first wavelet transformed layer. The ratio between higher band energy and low band energy of each block is evaluated and in the case of the blocks which include relatively large higher band energy, the motion estimation is carried out in the high resolution layer. Otherwise, all layers are used. The final motion vectors are obtained in the first wavelet transformed layer. So less bits for motion vectors are transmitted, and the decomposition of received image using inverse wavelet transform decreases the blocking effect.

• 전자공학회논문지B
• /
• 제30B권4호
• /
• pp.104-115
• /
• 1993

The motion compensated coding (MCC) technique, which exploits the temporal redundancies in the moving images with the motion estimation technique,is one of the most popular techniques currently used. Recently, a variable block size(VBS) motion estimation scheme has been utilized to improve the performance of the motion compensted coding. This scheme allows large blocks to the used when smaller blocks provide little gain, saving rates for areas containing more complex motion. Hence, a new VBS motion estimation scheme with a hierarchical structure is proposed in this paper, in order to combine the motion vector coding technique efficiently. Topmost level motion vector, which is obtained by the gain/cost motion estimation technique with selective motion prediction method, is always transmitted. Thus, the hierarchical VBS motion estimation scheme can efficiently exploit the redundancies among neighboring motion vectors, providing an efficient motion vector encoding scheme. Also, a restricted search with respect to the topmost level motion vector enables more flexible and efficient motion estimation for the remaining lower level blocks. Computer simulations on the high resolution image sequence show that, the VBS motion estimation scheme provides a performance improvement of 0.6~0.7 dB, in terms of PSNR, compared to the fixed block size motion estimation scheme.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
• /
• pp.21-24
• /
• 2002

This paper presents a new method for the motion detection of vehicles using hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing. It captures the road image by using a CMOS sensor. It divides the captured image into small blocks and detects the motion of each block by using a block-matching method which is based on a hierarchical motion estimation and parallel processing for the real-time processing. The parallelism is achieved by using the pipeline and the data flow technique. The proposed method has been implemented with an embedded system. Experimental results show that the proposed method detects the motion of vehicles in real-time.

• 방송공학회논문지
• /
• 제8권2호
• /
• pp.181-197
• /
• 2003

대역 분할 부호화(Sub-Band Coding: SBC)방식은 계층적 피라미드(hierarchical pyramid) 구조를 갖고 있어 움직임 예측 시 상위 계층에서는 전체적인 이동특성을 추정하고 하위 계층에서는 국부적인 세부 이동 특성을 추정할 수가 있어 실제 동영상 움직임 보상 성능이 매우 우수하다. 이와 같은 계층적 이동보상피라미드를 이용한 기존의 저대역(low-band) 이동보상 피라미드 방식에는 다음 두 가지 문제점들로 인해 매우 심각한 화질 저하가 발생한다. 첫째는 저대역 이동보상 피라미드의 각 계층에서 양자화기가 포함된 부호화기를 사용할 경우 하위 계층의 재생 영상일수록 상위 계층에서 누적된 양자화 오차(quantization error)들을 그대로 포함하기 때문에 연속된 영상에서의 정확한 이동 보상이 어렵게 된다. 둘째는 피라미드의 계층적 구조 모순으로 상위 계층예서 잘못된 움직임 추정(motion estimation)은 하위 계층으로 진행될수록 막대한 성능 저하의 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 우선 대역분할 부호화 방식을 이용한 대역별 계층적 이동보상에 대한 수학적 분석을 하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 제안되었던 통과 대역(pass-band) 이동보상 피라미드 방식이 누적된 양자화 오차 요인이 제거됨으로서 기존의 저대역 이동보상 피라미드에 비해 성능이 우수하다는 것을 이론적으로 분석하여 이를 증명하였다. 또한 계층적 이동보상 피라미드에서 매우 중요한 최고 계층의 초기 이동벡터 추정을 위하여 에지 패턴 분류를 이용한 이동벡터 추정 방식을 새로이 제안하였으며, 실험 결과 성능의 우수함이 입증되었다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
• /
• 제30B권6호
• /
• pp.35-48
• /
• 1993

In this paper, a hierarchical motion vector estimation algorithm using pyramidal structure is proposed. Using a smaller measurement window at each level of a pyramid than that of the conventional scheme, the proposed algorithm, based on the TSS(three step search), reduces the computational complexity greatly with its performance comparable to that of the TSS. By increasing the number of cnadidate motion vectors which are to be used as the initial search points for motion vector estimation at the next level, the performance improves further. Then the computational complexity of the proposed hierarchical algorithm depends on the number of candidate motion vectors, with its PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) ranging between those of the TSS and the full search method. The simulation results with two different block sizes and various test sequences are given and its hardware implementation is also sketched.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국방송공학회 1996년도 Proceedings International Workshop on New Video Media Technology
• /
• pp.41-44
• /
• 1996

A new three step hierarchical search algorithm for motion estimation is proposed. The proposed algorithm exploits the motion correlation of spatially neighboring blocks and the motion continuity of temporally neighboring blocks to alleviate the local minimum problem in the first step of the three step hierarchical search algorithm (3SHS). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves significant improvements in both estimation accuracy and performance reliability compared with the existing fast block matching algorithm including 3SHS, while maintaining almost the same computational complexity as 3SHS. The proposed scheme also possesses the regularity and simplicity of hardware-oriented features.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
• /
• 제8권4호
• /
• pp.441-449
• /
• 2007

동영상 부호화에서 움직임 추정은 참조 프레임으로부터 현재 프레임의 화소를 추정하는 처리로서 예측 화질과 부호화 시간에 직접적인 영향을 미친다. 본 논문은 고속 움직임 추정을 위해 시공간 움직임 활동도를 이용한 적응형 계층 육각 탐색에 관한 것이다. 제안된 방법은 현재의 매크로블록에 시공간적으로 인접한 매크로블록들의 움직임 벡터를 이용하여 시공간 움직임 활동도를 정의한다. 이렇게 정의한 시공간 움직임 활동도가 낮을 경우 기존의 적응형 육각 탐색을 수행하고, 그렇지 않을 경우, 웨이블렛 변환의 다단계 저주파 부영상들로 구성된 다단계 계층 공간상에서 계층 육각 탐색을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 서로 다른 움직임 특성을 갖는 복수의 동영상 시퀀스들에 대한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 토대로 예측 화질과 연산 시간 측면에서 제안된 방법의 성능을 분석.평가하였다. 실험 결과는 제안된 방법이 작은 움직임 탐색과 큰 움직임 탐색에 모두 적합함을 보여주고 있다. 제안된 방법은 고속 움직임 탐색이 가능한 적응형 육각 탐색의 장점을 유지하면서도 시공간 움직임 활동도가 높은 비디오 시퀀스에서 야기되는 국부 최소 문제를 적응적으로 경감할 수 있었다.