This paper proposed a contour/texture-based inter-frame coding method

BBSMF

which is suited for low bit-rate video coding. The BBSMF method first segments an image into some homgeneous regions

and generates variable size blocks to approximate these regions; Then it applies motion detection technique to separate the image into moving regions and still regions

the moving regions are estimated to get motion information by which a motion field image is constructed; Finally

the motion field image is segmented

the contours and the motion mean errors of textures are coded. Computer simulation shows that the BBSMF method gives better performance than the H.261 method in terms of not only CR but PSNR and subjective quality of reconstruction images. In this paper

some discussions are also made on subsample coding

motion compensation of moving scenes and how to select the number of predicted frames

etc..