New sorting-based lossless motion estimation algorithms and a partial distortion elimination performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 210-220

  Montrucchio, Bartolomeo ^a   Quaglia, Davide ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distortion taylor expansion; Fast block matching; Full search; Lossless motion estimation; Partial distortion elimination (PDE) bounds

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTORTION (WAVES); PATTERN MATCHING; SORTING; STANDARDS;

DISTORTION TAYLOR EXPANSION; FAST BLOCK MATCHING; FULL SEARCH; LOSSLESS MOTION ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DISTORTION ELIMINATION (PDE) BOUNDS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 13944281866     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.841689     Document Type: Article

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