Early termination scheme for binary block motion estimation

Abstract

For real-time video encoder, low-complexity video encoding algorithms are required in many applications. This paper provides an early termination scheme to make the conventional binary block motion estimation algorithm significantly faster. The difference between the intensity of original frame and its filtered version is used as an input to something in this paper. With video codec, the proposed scheme shows improved visual quality while reducing complexity. Experimental results are provided to compare the performance of the proposed scheme with the conventional algorithms.