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Dr. Nikola Božinovic

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Proceedings Article | 14 March 2005 Paper

Importance of motion in motion-compensated temporal discrete wavelet transforms

Janusz Konrad, Nikola Bozinovic

Proceedings Volume 5685, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.589882

KEYWORDS: Motion estimation, Discrete wavelet transforms, Motion models, Video, Motion measurement, Video coding, Transform theory, Motion analysis, Video compression, Wavelets

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Discrete wavelet transforms (DWTs) applied temporally under motion compensation (MC) have recently become a very powerful tool in video compression, especially when implemented through lifting. A recent theoretical analysis has established conditions for perfect reconstruction in the case of transversal MC-DWT, and also for the equivalence of lifted and transversal implementations of MC-DWT. For Haar MC-DWT these conditions state that motion must be invertible, while for higher-order transforms they state that motion composition must be a well-defined operator. Since many popular motion models do not obey these properties, thus inducing errors (prior to compression), it is important to understand what is the impact of motion non-invertibility or quasi-invertibility on the performance of video compression. In this paper, we present new experimental results of a study aiming at a quantitative evaluation of such impact in case of block-based motion. We propose a new metric to measure the degree with which two motion fields are not inverses of each other. Using this metric we investigate several motion inversion schemes, from simple temporal sample-and-hold, through spatial nearest-neighbor, to advanced spline-based inversion, and we compare compression performance of each method to that of independently-estimated forward and backward motion fields. We observe that compression performance monotonically improves with the reduction of the proposed motion inversion error, up to 1-1.5dB for the advanced spline-based inversion. We also generalize the problem of "unconnected" pixels by extending it to both update and prediction steps, as opposed to the update step only used in conventional methods. Initial tests show favorable results compared to previously reported techniques.

Proceedings Article | 23 June 2003 Paper

Scan order and quantization for 3D-DCT coding

Nikola Bozinovic, Janusz Konrad

Proceedings Volume 5150, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.503324

KEYWORDS: Quantization, Convolution, Motion estimation, 3D image processing, 3D scanning, Video, 3D modeling, Motion models, Video coding, 3D video compression

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Two types of coders dominate the field of video compression research today: well-established hybrid coders, that are in the core of all MPEG and H.26X standards, and emerging three-dimensional (3D) subband coders, largely inspired by the success of wavelet-based still image compression. However, there are surprisingly few results reported on 3D Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based transform coders. Even while exploiting all the benefical properties of the DCT itself (forward/inverse symmetry, fast separable implementation, and excellent energy compaction), these coders under-perform when compared to competing hybrid coders primarily due to ineffcient quantization, scanning and entropy coding used. In this paper, we study means of improving 3D-DCT coding by proposing adaptive scanning order and quantization of coeffcients that are better matched to 3D-DCT spectrum of a motion sequence. Our results show signifcant improvement in performance over previously reported techniques.

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