Survey of freely available motion estimation/mode decision papers. Last updated July 2007
Fast motion estimation within the H.264 codec
- H.-Y. Cheong and A. M. Tourapis
- Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on MultiMedia & Expo (ICME-2003), Baltimore, MD
- July 2003
- EPZS paper
Enhanced Predictive Zonal Search for Single and Multiple Frame Motion Estimation
- A. M. Tourapis
- Proceedings of Visual Communications and Image Processing 2002 (VCIP-2002), San Jose, CA
- January 2002
- Possible candidate for optimized Dirac motion estimation
Rate-distortion-complexity optimization of fast motion estimation in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
- S. Forchhammer, J. Støttrup-Andersen and S. M. Aghito
- October 2004
- Proceedings of ICIP 2004
- Optimizing integer motion estimation for H.264; enhanced implementation of EPZS with three early-stop criteria.
Improved and simplified fast motion estimation for JM (JVT-P021)
- X. Yi, J. Zhang, N. Ling, and W. Shang
- July 2005
- Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6) 16th Meeting: Poznan, Poland
- Simplified and improved motion estimation scheme for H.264 based on UMHexagonS (Unsymmetrical multi-hexagon search) implementation in H.264 reference
Fast Motion Estimation within the JVT codec [PDF]
- H.-Y. Cheong, A. M. Tourapis and P. Topiwala
- October 2002
- Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6) 5th Meeting: Geneva, Switzerland
Complexity Scalable Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC
- C. Kim, J. Xin, A. Vetro and C. C. Jay Kuo
- February 2006
- SPIE Conference Visual Communications and Image Processing, Vol. 6077, pp. 109-120
- Controlling complexity of the motion estimation process
Estimation and Mode Decision for Spatially Correlated Motion Sequences
- D. S. Turaga and T. Chen
- April 2001
- Older paper introducing motion estimation and mode decision
Fast Subpixel Motion Estimation Support for the Enhanced Predictive Zonal Search Scheme
- A. Tourapis and P. Topiwala
- October 2005
- Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6) 17th Meeting: Nice, FR
- Sub-pixel for EPZS
Fast ME in the JM reference software
- A. M. Tourapis, H.-Y. Cheong and P. Topiwala
- July 2005
- Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6) 16th Meeting: Poznań, PL
- Integer pixel EPZS
- R. Su, G. Liu and T. Zhang
- March 2007
- Mode decision for intra pictures in H.264
Feature-Based Intra-/InterCoding Mode Selection for H.264/AVC
- C. Kim, and C.-C. J. Kuo
- April 2007
- IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, vol. 17, no. 4
- Mode selection for H.264
Fast Mode Decision Algorithm for Inter-Frame Coding in Fully Scalable Video Coding
- H. Li, Z. G. Li and C. Wen
- July 2006
- IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, vol. 16, no. 7
- P-frame mode decision