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Lossless VLSI Oriented Full Computation Reusing Algorithm for H.264/AVC Fractional Motion Estimation

Ming SHAO, Zhenyu LIU, Satoshi GOTO, Takeshi IKENAGA

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Fractional Motion Estimation (FME) is an advanced feature adopted in H.264/AVC video compression standard with quarter-pixel accuracy. Although FME could gain considerably higher encoding efficiency, sub-pixel interpolation and sum of absolute transformed difference (SATD) computation, as main parts of FME, increase the computation complexity a lot. To reduce the complexity of FME, this paper proposes a full computation reusable VLSI oriented algorithm. Through exploiting the similarity among motion vectors (MVs) of partitions in the same macroblock (MB), temporary computation results can be fully reused. Furthermore, a simple and effective searching method is adopted to make the proposed method more suitable for VLSI implementation. Experiment results show that up to 80% add operations and 85% internal reference frame memory access operations are saved without any degradation in the coding quality.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E90-A No.4 pp.756-763
Publication Date
2007/04/01
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1745-1337
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.4.756
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 19th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
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