Enhanced MC-EZBC Scalable Video Coder

In this paper, we provide some recent extensions to the scalable subband/wavelet video coder MC-EZBC. The enhanced MC-EZBC employs an adaptive motion-compensated temporal filter (MCTF) framework. Directional I-BLOCKs and overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC) further improve MCTF efficiency. A scalable motion vector coder based on CABAC is shown to improve the overall performance at low bitrates/resolution. Frequency rolloff is incorporated to reduce spatial aliasing at low resolution without PSNR loss at full resolution. Experimental results show that the new features significantly improve the performance of MC-EZBC. We provide several comparisons to other recent coders.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TCSV
• Authors: Yongjun Wu, Konstantin Hanke, Thomas Rusert, John W. Woods
• Keywords: Motion Vector Coder, Motion-compensated Temporal Filter, TCSV 2008, Video Coder Mc-ezbc