An innovative, high quality and search window independent motion estimation algorithm and architecture for MPEG-2 encoding

Author

Rovati, Fabrizio S. ; Pau, Danilo ; Piccinelli, Emiliano ; Pezzoni, Luca ; Bard, Jean-Michel

Author_Institution

Adv. Syst. Technol. Labs., STMicroelectron., Italy

Volume

46

Issue

3

fYear

2000

fDate

8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

697

Lastpage

705

Abstract

This paper describes an innovative, pipelined, cache-based architecture for a motion estimation coprocessor. The coprocessor is based on a predictive/recursive algorithm whose computational complexity is low and not dependent on the search window. The synergies between the architecture and algorithm´s features allow a high quality, low-area, low-bandwidth, search window implementation for standard resolution (PAL/NTSC), low resolution (CIF/QCIF) or high resolution (ATSC) sequences

Keywords

cache storage; code standards; computational complexity; coprocessors; data compression; digital signal processing chips; image resolution; image sequences; motion estimation; pipeline processing; telecommunication standards; video coding; ATSC; CIF/QCIF; DCT; MPEG-2 encoding; PAL/NTSC; high quality implementation; high resolution sequences; low computational complexity; low resolution sequences; low-area implementation; low-bandwidth; motion estimation architecture; motion estimation coprocessor; pipelined cache-based architecture; predictive/recursive algorithm; search window independent motion estimation algorithm; standard resolution sequences; Computational complexity; Computer architecture; Coprocessors; Discrete cosine transforms; Encoding; Motion estimation; Redundancy; Spatial resolution; Transform coding; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.883434

Filename

883434