Denoising intra-coded moving pictures using motion estimation and pixel shift

This paper presents a denoising method of intra-coded pictures using motion estimation and pixel shift. Firstly, we show that pixel-aligned mixture of distorted images which are spatially shifted and differently encoded brings reduction of quantization errors. We show that this effect can be formulated as a special case of Wiener-Hopf equation and independence of quantization errors affects the performance. We then consider its application to denoising of intra-coded pictures by using motion estimation and pixel shift. Experiments using actual image sequences verify that motion estimation is effective in moving regions, pixel shift is effective in static regions and favorable PSNR gains are achieved.