A New Super-resolution Reconstruction Method Combining Narrow Quantization Constraint Set and Motion Estimation for H.264 Compressed Video

Super-resolution (SR) reconstruction technique is mainly a task of reconstructing high resolution images from a sequence of low resolution images. The super-resolution technique for H.264 compressed video has been focused by many researchers recently. This paper briefly analyzes the narrow quantization constraint set method (NQCS), and then, in consideration of motion characteristic information of H.264 compressed video, proposes a new SR reconstruction method which combines NQCS with motion characteristic information, which are spatial domain motion estimation and frequency domain motion noise respectively. Experimental results of different standard test sequences compressed by H.264 are given. The simulation shows that both the NQCS+Mnoise method which combines NQCS with frequency domain motion noise, and the NQCS+M method which combines NQCS with spatial domain motion estimation, can get higher PNSR value than NQCS. Moreover, the NQCS+M method has better performance than NQCS+Mnoise method, and our proposed method is suitable for the SR reconstruction of H.264 compressed video.