The wavelet-based multi-resolution motion estimation using temporal aliasing detection

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for wavelet-based multi-resolution motion estimation (MRME) using temporal aliasing detection (TAD). In wavelet transformed image/video signals, temporal aliasing will be severe as the motion of object increases, causing the performance of the conventional MRME algorithms to drop. To overcome this problem, we perform the temporal aliasing detection and MRME simultaneously instead of using a temporal anti-aliasing filter which changes the original signal. We show that this technique gives competitive or better performance in terms of rate-distortion (RD) for slow-varying or simple-moving video signals compared to conventional MRME employing increased search area (SA).