Spatio-temporal scalability based on motion-compensated DCT temporal filters

In this paper, a motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) framework based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT) is proposed and named MCDCT-TF. It is able to employ filters of any length with particular emphasis on 5/3 DCT and 7/4 DCT. The proposed MCDCT-TF and the two-dimensional (2-D) DCT decimation technique are incorporated into H.264/AVC to provide spatio-temporal scalability. Compared with the current MCTF schemes such as Haar, and 5/3 wavelet filters, simulation results show that the proposed MCDCT-TF utilizing longer tap DCT filters achieves a significant improvement in coding gain. Moreover, the performance gap between the presented scalable video coding and the single layer H.264/AVC is small. However, the presented spatio-temporal coding scheme outperforms the spatio-temporal supported in JSVM.