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DCT-Based Motion Estimation

Authors: Ut-Va Koc; K. J. Liu; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK INST FOR SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Abstract:
A new motion estimation approach, the DCT-Based Motion Estimation Scheme (DXT-ME) utilizing the sinusoidal orthogonal principles to estimate displacements of moving objects in the transform domain, based upon the concept of pseudo phases, is presented in this paper. The computational complexity of this method is only O(N2) for an N x N block in comparison to the O(N4) complexity of Full Search Block Matching Approach (BMA-ME). In addition, the DXT-ME algorithm has solely highly parallel local operations and this property makes parallel implementation feasible. Furthermore, incorporation of DXT-ME with a video coder using DCT can combine the DCT and motion estimation algorithm to achieve further saving in overall system complexity and increase the system throughput. Unlike the pel-recursive algorithm, this scheme is robust for even very noisy images. Due to its feature matching property, we can employ simple preprocessing on images of complicated scenery to extract the features of moving objects for DXT-ME to further improve its performance. Finally simulation on a number of video sequences is presented to compare DXT-ME with BMA-ME.

Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Description: Research rept.
Pages: 33
Report Date: 1995
Contract Number: N000149310566
Report Number: A089254
Keywords relating to this report:
ALGORITHMS
CODERS
COMPUTATIONS
DISPLACEMENT
ESTIMATES
IMAGES
MATCHING
MOTION
PARALLEL ORIENTATION
PREPROCESSING
SEQUENCES
SIMULATION
THROUGHPUT
VIDEO SIGNALS
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