An improved algorithm for the early detection of all-zero blocks in H. 264 video encoding is
proposed in this paper. Based on the theoretical analyzes for the integer transform and …

Spatial intra prediction is introduced to achieve higher coding efficiency in H. 264/AVC.
Unfortunately, this comes at the cost in considerably increased complexity when RDO is …

This paper presents a novel method named as Modified Orthogonal Search Algorithm
(MOSA) for the block based motion estimation. Recently fast search algorithm for video …

In this paper, we propose a fast full-pel variable block size motion estimation algorithm
called fast Walsh search in variable block size (FWS-VBS). FWS-VBS employs a new error …

The three main reasons why the new H. 264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video coding standard has a
significant performance better than the other standards are the adoption of variable block …

The H. 264 video coding standard adopts different coding schemes like variable block sizes
and multiple reference frames for motion estimation. Hence, H. 264/AVC provides gains in …

The paper presents a novel fast search algorithm for block base motion compensation called
the orthogonal logarithmic search. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated by using …

A fast block mode determining method for motion estimation, and an apparatus thereof. A
cost of motion estimation for an input image frame is predicted by Kalman filtering, and one …

For improvement of coding efficiency, the H. 264 video coding standard uses new coding
tools, such as variable block size, quarter-pixel-accuracy motion estimation, multiple …

A low cost VLSI architecture to compute the motion vectors required by the H. 264/AVC
video coding standard is presented in this paper. The possibility of avoiding motion …