Motion compensation method for moving pictures with binary shape

摘要

This paper describes a motion compensation method for arbitrarily shaped moving visual objects. To utilise both the inter-frame correlation and the texture-shape correlation, we use macroblock-based motion compensation for binary shape coding as well as texture coding. To efficiently achieve motion compensation for a moving binary shape, we introduce extra motion vectors for the shape coding in addition to the texture motion vectors, where the shape motion vectors are coded by referring to the texture motion vectors. The proposed method can successfully save more than 50% of the number of bits in comparison with the intra-only method. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been established through MPEG4 standardisation activity, and the proposed motion-compensation framework has been adopted by the MPEG-4 visual coding standard (ISO 14496-2).