Motion Estimation Based on the Partition and Evaluation of the Search Area in H.264/AVC[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2010, 15(2): 242. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20100209.
Motion Estimation Based on the Partition and Evaluation of the Search Area in H.264/AVC
Although the search speed of fast motion estimation algorithms such as Three Step Search and Diamond Search is fast
it is easy to trap into local-minimum which caused the false motion vector preditcor. UMHexagons solved the problem well; however
this algorithm is still needed to search too many points and therefore slowed down the search speed. In order to obtain a good balance between search speed and quality performance
this paper proposed PEOSA algorithm.It divided the search area into four part firstly
then evaluated the probability of the best motion vector in every part
and finally searched every part through different search scheme. The experiment results showed that the PEOSA algorithm save more than 43.84% search time compared with UMHexagons; while the averaging PSNR loss was less than 0.017dB for all tested sequences .The new search algorithm holds high value in real time coding and decoding.