Extended motion compensation using larger blocks and an elastic motion model

Motion estimation and compensation contribute greatly to video compression efficiency. Previous work has explored the effects of higher-order motion models with standard block sizes on video coding, but the impact on compression efficiency has not been sufficient to see such approaches adopted in mainstream video-compression standards. In this paper, we put forward a new strategy to augment the performance of extended motion models in the perspective of classical block-matching algorithms. To accomplish superior compression, the proposed scheme takes advantage of larger blocks with multi-level partitioning and a higher order elastic motion model. Performance evaluations show that these two features, when combined under a common framework, can significantly outperform the existing techniques including those available in the recent H.264 standard.