• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.737-740
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• 2008

Block-matching motion estimation plays an important role in video coding. In this paper, we propose an Efficient Search Algorithm for Fast Motion Estimation. The proposed algorithm detects motion variation for reducing computational complexity before determining motion vector. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good performance than conventional algorithms through quantitative evaluation.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.285-290
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fast encoding algorithm for scalable video encoding without compromising coding performance. Through analysis on multiple motion estimation processes performed at the enhancement layer, we show redundant motion estimations and suggest the condition under which the redundant ones can efficiently be determined without additional memory. Based on the condition, the redundant motion estimation processes are excluded in the proposed algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is faster than the conventional fast encoding method without performance degradation and additional memory.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.1C
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• pp.19-33
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• 2008

A method that is adaptively selecting among previous fast motion estimation algorithms and a newly proposed fast motion estimation algorithm(UCDS) is presented in this paper. The algorithm named AUDC and a newly proposed fast motion estimation algorithms are based on the Diamond Search(DS) algorithm and Three Step Search(TSS). Although many previous fast motion estimation algorithms have lots of advantages, those have lots of disadvantages. So we thought better adaptive selection of fast motion estimation algorithms than only using one fast motion estimation algorithm. Therefore, we propose AUDC that is using length of the MV, Search Point, SAD of the neighboring block and adaptively selecting among Cross Three Step Search(CTSS), Diamond Search(DS) and Ungraded Cross Diamond Search(UCDS). Experimental results show that the AUDC is much more robust, provides a faster searching speed, and smaller distortions than other popular fast block-matching at algorithms.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11d
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• pp.183-186
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• 2000

Motion estimation technique has been used to increase video compression rates in motion video applications. One of the important algorithms to implement the motion estimation technique is search algorithm. Among many search algorithms, the H.263 adopted the Nearest Neighbors algorithm for fast search. In this paper, motion estimation block for the Nearest Neighbors algorithm is designed on FPGA and coded using VHDL and simulated under the Xilinx foundation environments. In the experiment results, we verified that the algorithm was properly designed and performed on the Xilinx FPGA(XCV300Q240)

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.11-16
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• 2003

In this paper, a Fast Block Sum Pyramid Algorithm (FBSPA) is presented for motion estimation in video coding. PBSPA is based on Block Sum Pyramid Algorithm(BSPA), Efficient Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithms for Block Matching Motion Estimation, and Fast Algorithms for the Estimation of Motion Vectors. FBSPA reduces the computations for motion estimation of BSPA 29％ maximally using partial distortion elimination(PDE) scheme.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.43-46
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a fast adaptive diamond search algorithm(FADS) for block matching motion estimation. Fast motion estimation algorithms reduce the computational complexity by using the UESA (Unimodal Error Search Assumption) that the matching error monotonically increases as the search moves away from the global minimum error. Recently many fast BMAs(Block Matching Algorithms) make use of the fact that the global minimum points in real world video sequences are centered at the position of zero motion. But these BMAs, especially in large motion, are easily trapped into the local minima and result in poor matching accuracy. So, we propose a new motion estimation algorithm using the spatial correlation among the adjacent blocks. We change the origin of search window according to the spatially adjacent motion vectors and their MAE(Mean Absolute Error). The computer simulation shows that the proposed algorithm has almost the same computational complexity with UCBDS(Unrestricted Center-Biased Diamond Search)〔1〕, but enhance PSNR. Moreover, the proposed algorithm gives almost the same PSNR as that of FS(Full Search), even for the large motion case, with half the computational load.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.275-280
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• 2004

In this paper, a very fast block matching scheme was proposed to reduce the computations of Block Sum Pyramid Algorithm for motion estimation in video coding. The proposed algorithm is based on Block Sum Pyramid Algorithm and Efficient Multi-level Successive Elimination Algorithm. The proposed algorithm can reduce the computations of motion estimation greatly with 100% motion estimation accuracy. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was verified by experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.10
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• pp.761-767
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• 2003

In this paper, A Fast Multi-level Successive Elimination Algorithm (FMSEA) is presented for block matching motion estimation in video coding. Motion estimation accuracy of FMSEA is equal to that of Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithm(MSEA). FMSEA can reduce the computations for motion estimation of MSEA by using partial distortion elimination technique. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was verified by experimental results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1995.06a
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• pp.131-135
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• 1995

As the search range increases, most fast ME algorithms can not keep the performance comparable to the full search BMA. In this paper, we propose a new fast motion estimation method which locates the small search area for a block of the current frame. This method is based on interframe correlation of motion vectors as well as intraframe correlation. Especially, the proposed algorithm outperforms other fast methods when the motion is very fast or complex. It drastically reduces computational complexity while maintaining good performance compared with the conventional FS-BMA.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.73-78
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• 2004

By modeling the block matching algorithm as a function of the correlation of image blocks, we derive search patterns for fast block matching motion estimation. The proposed approach provides an analytical support lot the diamond-shape search pattern, which is widely used in fast block matching algorithms. We also propose a new fast motion estimation algorithm using adaptive search patterns and statistical properties of the object displacement. In order to select an appropriate search pattern, we exploit the relationship between the motion vector and the block differences. By changing the search pattern adaptively, we improve motion prediction accuracy while reducing required computational complexity compared to other fast block matching algorithms.