Improving MPEG Performance Using Frame Partitioning

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 109, No. 6, pp. 469–475
Abstract: A new MPEG compliant method for optimizing MPEG video coding is presented in this paper. The proposed technique uses a unique temporal image segmentation process (frame partitioning) to discriminate between visually noticeable and visually unnoticeable temporal changes in the uncompressed video stream. The results of this block-based separation are then used to limit the encoding to only those changes that are visible to the human eye. For the same picture quality, this method improves the efficiency of MPEG compression by up to 25%. In addition to the bit rate/quality improvement, it also provides a significant increase in the speed of the decoding processes.
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
DOI: 10.5594/J05313
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J05313
Author(s): Katerina ProninaK. Pronina, R. Ward, and P. Nasiopoulos are with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Katerina Pronina (Barzykina) received a M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1998. Since then she has been a research engineer at the image processing laboratory at UBC and a marketing and new product development engineer with Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories. Pronina is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree at UBC. Her research interests are in the areas of interactive multimedia technologies, multimedia authoring, and multimedia signal processing.
Rabab K. WardK. Pronina, R. Ward, and P. Nasiopoulos are with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Rabab K. Ward received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Cairo in 1966 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and 1972, respectively. She is a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of British Columbia, as well as the director at the Center for Integrated Computer Systems Research. — Her research interests are mainly in signal and image processing. She has made contributions in the areas of signal detection, image encoding, compression, recognition, restoration, and enhancement, in relation to infant cry signals, cable television, HDTV, medical images, and astronomical images. She holds five patents related to cable television picture monitoring, measurement, and noise reduction. Ward is a fellow of the EIC, IEEE, and the Royal Society of Canada. She is currently serving as the General Chair of ICIP 2000 to be held in Vancouver, Canada.
Panos NasiopoulosK. Pronina, R. Ward, and P. Nasiopoulos are with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Panos Nasiopoulos has a B.S. in Physics, which he received in Greece and B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, from the University of British Columbia. He is currently the director of marketing communication for Daikin U.S., director of the Master of Software Systems program at the UBC, and an adjunct professor at the UBC department of electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include interactive television, multimedia, and DVD. Nasiopoulos has been an active member of the IEEE and SMPTE, as well as the DMC-TC (In-Flight-Entertainment) committee.
Copyright: © 2000 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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