• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.3
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• pp.77-88
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• 1995

It is assumed in the block matching algorithm(BMA) that all the pels in a block have a same motion vector. Then, the motion vector of a block in the BMA is matched to only one or none of the objects in the worst case if objects in a block have different motion vectors. This is apparent in the motion estimation using the fast BMA which has the effect of reducing the computation time and hardware complexity, compared to the full search BMA. Although the motion vector in the motion estimation using small block size is accurate, the increased number of bits is required to represent motion vectors. In this paper, new motion vector segmentation with less additional information and hardware complexity than the conventional method is proposed. In the proposed method, a motion vector is derived from the block for motion vector segmentation and another motion vector is extracted from four neighboring blocks to consiture a motion vector pair. For the accurate motion vector of each subblock, the motion vector is assigned to each subblock by mean squared error measure. And the overlapped motion compensation using window is also applied to reduce displaced frame difference.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.5
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• pp.108-116
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• 1994

In this paper, we propose a new motion vector smoothing scheme which has high reliability and coding efficiency of motion vectors. In motion vector filed, groupings are made using angle and magnitude of the motion vectors. In each group, the unreliable motion vectors are corrected by the motion vector smoothing. In 3$\times$3 window, motion vector of the current block is made to group, and the motion vector smoothing is performed only in that group. Result of computer simulation shows much improvement of the reliability of motion vectors. Moreover, coding bits of the motion vector are diminished from 0.967 to 6.773 bits per block.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.103-110
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• 2011

In this paper, an adaptive motion vector smoothing scheme based on weighted vector median filtering is proposed in order to eliminate the motion outliers more effectively for improving the quality of side information in frame-based distributed video coding. We use a simple motion vector outlier reliability measure for each block in a motion compensated interpolated frame and apply weighted vector median filtering only to the blocks with unreliable motion vectors. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive motion vector smoothing algorithm improves the quality of the side information significantly while maintaining low complexity at the encoder in frame-based distributed video coding.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2044-2047
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose efficient motion vector refinement algorithm for frame-rate reduction transcoding. The proposed algorithm is to set the search range for motion refinement based on the incoming motion vector. The algorithm calculates the importance of motion vector of the skipped frame and then selects two motion vector to set search range. Through this process, we determine the accuracy of incoming motion vector and set the search range lot refinement adaptively by means of the accuracy. In experiments, we show efficiency of our algorithm to reduce the search points for refinement.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.33B no.6
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• pp.64-72
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose predictive motion estimatin algorithm which can predict motion without additional side information considering spatio-tempral correlatio of motion vector. This method performs motion prediction of current block using correlation of the motion vector for two spatially adjacent blocks and a temporally adjacent block. Form predicted motion, the position of searhc area is determined. Then in this searhc area, we estimate motion vector of current block using block matching algoirthm. Considering spatial an temporal correlation of motion vector, the proposed method can predict motion precisely much more. Especially when the motion of objects is rapid, this method can estimate motion more precisely without reducing block size or increasing search area. Futhrmore, the proposed method has computation time the same as conventional block matching algorithm. And as it predicts motion from adjacent blocks, it does not require additional side information for adjacent block. Computer simulation results show that motion estimation of proposed method is more precise than that of conventioanl method.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.5
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• pp.68-74
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• 1998

Block-based interframe interpolation algorithms cause severe block effect because the algorithm interpolates the skipped frame by using block based motion vector. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an algorithm that reduces the block effect in the interpolated frames. First, we propose an algorithm that obtains backward motion vector by using forward motion vector received from the transmitter. In order to predict well covered and uncovered region, backward motion vector is needed as well as forward motion vector. Second, we propose the algorithm which segments the motion boundary blocks into regions and obtains the motion vector of each region from candidates that consist of the motion vectors of neighbor blocks. This algorithm makes it possible that the moving object and the background, in spite of being in the same block, have different motion vectors from each other so that the block effect can be reduced. According to the results of simulation, the proposed algorithm is superior to conventional algorithm in subjective quality a swell as in objective quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.426-433
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• 2010

The H.264/AVC video coding standard performs inter prediction using variable block sizes to improve coding efficiency. Since we predict not only the motion of homogeneous regions but also the motion of non-homogeneous regions accurately using variable block sizes, we can reduce residual information effectively. However, each motion vector should be transmitted to the decoder. In low bit rate environments, motion vector information takes approximately 40% of the total bitstream. Thus, motion vector competition was proposed to reduce the amount of motion vector information. Since the size of the motion vector difference is reduced by motion vector competition, it requires only a small number of bits for motion vector information. However, we need to send the corresponding index of the best motion vector predictor for decoding. In this paper, we propose a new codeword table based on the phased-in code to encode the index of motion vector predictor efficiently. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm reduces the average bit rate by 7.24% for similar PSNR values, and it improves the average image quality by 0.36dB at similar bit rates.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.7
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• pp.107-118
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• 2015

Although most current video coding standards set a fixed motion vector resolution like quarter-pel accuracy, a scheme supporting multiple motion vector resolutions can improve the coding efficiency of video since it can allow to use just required motion vector accuracy depending on the video content and at the same time to generate more accurate motion predictor. However, the selected motion vector resolution for each motion vector is a signaling overhead. This paper proposes a contradiction testing-based signaling scheme of the motion vector resolution. The proposed method selects a best resolution for each motion vector among multiple candidates in such a way to produce the minimum amount of coded bits for the motion vector. The signaling overhead is reduced by contradiction testing that operates under a predefined criterion at both encoder and decoder with a purpose of pruning irrelevant candidate motion vector resolutions from signaling responsibility. Experimental results verified that the proposed scheme is effective in reducing coded motion information by achieving its $Bj{\o}ntegaard$ delta bit rate (BDBR) gain of about 4.01% on average (and up to 15.17%) compared to the conventional scheme with a fixed motion vector resolution.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.66-69
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 프레임율 향상 기법 (Frame Rate Up-Conversion, FRUC)에 사용되는 새로운 움직임 예측(motion estimation)알고리즘을 제시한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 단 방향 움직임 예측(unilateral motion estimation)에 의해 순방향 및 역방향의 움직임 벡터(motion vector)를 독립적으로 추정한다. 움직임 벡터를 찾은 후, weighted motion vector smoothing(WMVS)가 적용된다. 다음으로, 보간 프레임 (interpolated frame)의 관점에서 현재 블록의 인접 블록들의 모션 벡터들을 후보들로 사용하여 현재 블록과 가장 잘 일치하는 움직임 벡터를 찾는다. 그 후, 선택된 움직임 벡터를 현재 블록의 유도 움직임 벡터 (guidance motion vector)로 정한다. 그런 다음 motion vector shifting error 를 없애기 위해 motion vector refinement (MVR)가 진행된다. 마지막 단계에서는 각 움직임 벡터의 신뢰도를 계산하여 순방향 및 역방향 움직임 벡터 중 최종 움직임 벡터를 선택한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.372-383
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• 2011

This paper proposes an improved design of an interleaved motion vector coding scheme with flexibility in predictive motion vector component by exploiting motion characteristics. It can use component-wise adaptive motion vector predictor based on the utility of spatial and temporal motion field without any signaling bit for indicating decoder of the selected predictive motion vector component. Experiment with test video data shows about 1.99% (max 8.71%) bit rate reduction compared to the conventional H.264/AVC method.