A fast-search motion estimation method and its VLSI architecture

Author

Chen, Jau-Ling ; Chen, Pei-Yin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Southern Taiwan Univ. of Technol., Tainan, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

164

Abstract

An efficient search algorithm for block motion estimation and its VLSI architecture are proposed in this paper. By using gray prediction, the proposed algorithm can determine the motion vectors of image blocks quickly and correctly. Our experimental results show that the algorithm performs better than other search algorithms, such as 3SS, NTSS, 4SS, SES, PS and GPS. The VLSI architecture of the algorithm has been developed, and in simulation it yields a search rate of 700K blocks/sec with a clock rate of 70 MHz

Keywords

VLSI; block codes; data compression; motion estimation; video coding; 70 MHz; VLSI architecture; block motion estimation; clock rate; fast-search motion estimation method; gray prediction; image blocks; motion vectors; search algorithm; search rate; video compression; Clocks; Computational complexity; Discrete cosine transforms; Encoding; Global Positioning System; Motion estimation; Prediction algorithms; Transform coding; Very large scale integration; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lansing, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6475-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2000.951611

Filename

951611