Motion compensation based on tangent distance prediction for video compression

摘要

We present a new algorithm for motion compensation that uses a motion estimation method based on tangent distance. The method is compared with a Block-Matching based approach in various common situations. Whereas Block-Matching algorithms usually only predict positions of blocks over time, our method also predicts the evolution of pixels into these blocks. The prediction error is then drastically decreased. The method is implemented into the Theora codec proving that this algorithm improves the video codec performances.