• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2005년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.339-342
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• 2005

We present an efficient block-based motion estimation algorithm with motion analysis. The motion analysis determines a size of search pattern and a maximum repeated count of search pattern. In case of large movement in large image, we reduce search points and the local minimum which caused by low performance. The proposed algorithm employs with searching step of 2. The first step determines an initial search point with neighbor block vector and a size of initial search pattern. The second step determines a size of search pattern and a maximum repeated count with motion analysis. We improve motion prediction accuracy while reducing required computational complexity compared to other fast block-based motion estimation algorithms.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.843-846
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• 2000

An optical flow-based motion estimation algorithm is proposed for video coding. The algorithm uses block-matching motion estimation with an adaptive search region. The search region is computed from motion fields that are estimated based on the optical flow. The algorithm is based on the fact that true block-motion vectors have similar characteristics to optical flow vectors. Thereafter, the search region is computed using these optical flow vectors that include spatial relationships. In conventional block matching, the search region is fixed. In contrast, in the new method, the appropriate size and location of the search region are both decided by the proposed algorithm. The results obtained using test images show that the proposed algorithm can produce a significant improvement compared with previous block-matching algorithms.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1097-1100
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• 1999

Due to the significant computation of full search in motion estimation, extensive research in fast motion estimation algorithms has been carried out. However, most of the algorithms have the degradation in predicted images compared with the full search algorithm. To reduce an amount of significant computation while keeping the same prediction quality of the full search, we propose a fast block-matching algorithm based on gradient magnitude of reference block without any degradation of predicted image. By using Taylor series expansion, we show that the block matching errors between reference block and candidate block are proportional to the gradient magnitude of matching block. With the derived result, we propose fast full search algorithm with adaptively determined scan direction in the block matching. Experimentally, our proposed algorithm is very efficient in terms of computational speedup and has the smallest computation among all the conventional full search algorithms. Therefore, our algorithm is useful in VLSI implementation of video encoder requiring real-time application.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.263-264
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• 2007

In this paper, an efficient SAD(Sum of Absolute Differences) processor structure for motion estimation of 0.264 is proposed. SAD processors are commonly used both in full search methods for motion estimation or in fast search methods for motion estimation. Proposed structure consists of SAD calculator block, combinator block, and minimum value calculator block. Especially, proposed structure is simplified by using Distributed Arithmetic for addition operation. The Verilog-HDL(Hard Description Language) coding and FPGA implementation results for the proposed structure show 39% and 32% gate count reduction comparison with those of the conventional structure, respectively. Due to its efficient processing scheme, the proposed SAD processor structure can be widely used in size dominant H.264 chip.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1131-1141
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• 2018

Motion Estimation which is used to reduce the redundant data plays an important role in video compressions. However, it requires huge computational complexity of the encoder part. And therefore many fast motion estimation methods has been developed to reduce complexity. Multi-view video is obtained by using many cameras at different positions and its complexity increases in proportion to the number of cameras. In this paper, we proposed a fast motion estimation method for multi-view video. The proposed method predicts a search start point by using correlated candidate vectors of the current block. According to the motion size of the start search point, a search start pattern of the current block is decided adaptively. The proposed method proves to be about 2 ~ 5 times faster than existing methods while maintaining similar image quality and bitrates.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.381-384
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• 2009

In the Wyner-Ziv coding, compression performance highly depends on the quality of the side information since better quality of side information brings less channel noise and less parity bit. However, as decoder generates side information without any knowledge of the current Wyner-Ziv frame, it doesn't have optimal criterion to decide which block is more advantageous to generate better side information. Hence, in general, fixed block size motion estimation (ME) is performed in generating side information. By the fixed block size ME, the best coding performance cannot be attained since some blocks are better to be motion estimated in different block sizes. Therefore if there is a way to find appropriate ME block of each block, the quality of the side information might be improved. In this paper, we investigate the effects of variable block sizes of ME in generating side information.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 II
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• pp.851-854
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• 2003

The low power motion estimation for MPEG-4 is a soft-core for hardwired motion estimation block in MPEG-4. This motion estimation is modified by 10 difference mode. So, this motion estimation decrease a power consumption compare conventional step search. This modified 4SS Low power Motion Estimation has been tested and verified to be valid for implementation of FPGA. The average PSNR between the original image and the motion-compensated image is 28.25dB. And Power consumption is 26mW.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 움직임 추정 기법을 적응적으로 사용하는 프레임율 증강 기법인 AME-FRUC (Adaptive Motion Estimation Frame Rate Up-Conversion)을 제안하고자 한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 영상의 움직임이 적은 영역에서 기존의 EBME (Extended Bilateral Motion Estimation)을 활용하고, 움직임 벡터 정보를 활용하여 관심영역을 결정한다. 관심 영역에서는 제안하는 텍스쳐 정보에 기반한 블록 분할을 활용한 단방향 움직임 추정을 수행하도록 하여 정확도를 높였다. 최종적으로 MCFI (Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation)기법을 움직임 추정 방법에 따라 적용하고 보간 하여 중간 프레임을 생성 한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존의 FRUC 알고리즘에 비해 최대 68% 적은 SAD 연산으로 3dB 높은 PSNR 성능과 0.07 더 높은 SSIM 성능을 보이는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.602-605
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• 2004

A novel motion vector re-estimation technique for transcoding into lower spatial resolution is proposed. This technique is based on the fact that the block matching error is proportional to the complexity of the reference block with Taylor series expansion. It is shown that the motion vectors re-estimated by the proposed method are closer to optimal ones and offer better quality than those of previous techniques.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.9-13
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• 2003

이 논문에서는 비디오 영상에서의 블록 모션 측정을 위한 통계학적인 특징에 기반 한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 우선 참조 블록의 통계학적인 특징을 구하고, 이를 참조 블록의 통계적 특징과 정규 시작점 패턴 (SPP) 에 퍼져 있는 블록에서의 특징을 비교하여, SPP에서의 시작점 (SP) 후보를 선택하는 데에 적용한다. 최종적인 SP 들은 SP 후보 들에서의 평균절대차이 (MAD) 값으로 구한다. 마지막으로 기존의 고속탐색 알고리즘인 BBG나 DS 그리고 TSS중 하나를 이용하여 참조블록의 모션 벡터를 최종 SP를 시작점으로 하여 계산하였다. 실험결과는 기대 했던 바와 같이 최종 SP로부터의 시작점들이 전역최소값 (global minimum)에 근접함을 보여 주었다.