Motion feature and hadamard coefficient-based fast multiple reference frame motion estimation for H.264

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 620-632

  Liu, Zhenyu ^a,b   Li, Lingfeng ^c   Song, Yang ^a,b   Li, Shen ^d   Goto, Satoshi ^a,b   Ikenaga, Takeshi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nemochips Inc   (China)

^d TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

H.264 AVC; Motion estimation (ME); Motion vector (MV); Multiple reference frames; Video coding; Video signal processing; VLSI

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECODING; IMAGE CODING; MOTION ESTIMATION; STANDARDS;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION VECTOR (MV); MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 43049167188     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.918844     Document Type: Article

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