Bin Classification Using Temporal Gradient Estimation for Lossless Video Coding

In this paper, a novel method for lossless compression of video is proposed. Almost all the prediction based methods reported in literature are of two pass. In the first pass, motion compensated frame is obtained and in the second, some sophisticated method is used to predict the pixels of the current frame. The proposed method is an efficient replacement for the first method that predicts current pixel using an estimate of deviation from the pixel at same temporal location in the previous frame. In this scheme, causal pixels are divided into bins based on the distance between the current and causal pixels. The novelty of the work is in finding out the fixed coefficients of the bins for a particular type of video sequence. The overall performance of the proposed method is same with much lower computational complexity.