title: Motion-compensated 3-D subband coding of video.
abstract: This paper describes a video coding system based on motion-compensated three-dimensional (3-D) subband/wavelet coding (MC-3DSBC), which can overcome the limits of both 3-D SBC and MC prediction-based coding. In this new system, spatio-temporal subbands are generated by MC temporal analysis and a spatial wavelet transform, and then encoded by 3-D subband-finite state scalar quantization (3DSB-FSSQ). The rate allocation from the GOP level to each class of subbands is optimized by utilizing the structural property of MC-3DSBC that additive superposition approximately holds for both rate and distortion. The proposed video coding system is applied to several test video clips. Its performance exceeds that of both a known MPEG-1 implementation and a similar subband MC predictive coder while maintaining modest computational complexity and memory size.
authors.affiliation: Center for Image Process. Res., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA. woods@ecse.rpi.edu
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Woods