Elimination of blocky artifacts in predictive video coding

Yoon-Seok Jung; Geun-Soo Park; Samuel Moon-Ho Song

doi:10.1117/12.298333

9 January 1998 Elimination of blocky artifacts in predictive video coding

Yoon-Seok Jung, Geun-Soo Park, Samuel Moon-Ho Song

Proceedings Volume 3309, Visual Communications and Image Processing '98; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298333
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In a number of image compression standards, the motion vectors are generally obtained by the well-known block matching algorithm (BMA), the error image along with the computed motion vectors are encoded. Unfortunately, this widely used approach generates artificial block boundary discontinuities, called blocky artifacts, between the blocks. Since the blocky artifacts are caused by synthesizing the predicted frame using one constant motion vector per block, we propose an algorithm that interpolates the motion vectors before the construction of the predicted image. Naturally, using spatially smooth motion vectors completely eliminates the blocky artifact. However, we can no longer use the motion vectors as provided by the BMA. The optimum motion vectors must minimize the norm of the error image. The proposed algorithm computes the optimum motion vectors, with the interpolation process built into the algorithm. To obtain spatially smooth motion vectors, we use a band-limited interpolation, and thus, we refer to our algorithm as the band-limited motion compensation (BLMC). Our simulations indicate that the BLMC completely eliminates the blocky artifacts, as expected, and in addition provides higher peak-signal-to-noise-ratio in comparison to the traditional BMA based motion compensation (BMC) as well as the overlapped BMC.

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Yoon-Seok Jung, Geun-Soo Park, and Samuel Moon-Ho Song "Elimination of blocky artifacts in predictive video coding", Proc. SPIE 3309, Visual Communications and Image Processing '98, (9 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298333

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Image compression

Motion models

Video coding

Image quality

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