C. Hufnagl, A. Uhl. Fractal Block-Matching in Motion-Compensated Video Coding. Fractals London, 8:35-48, 2000.
In this work, we propose and investigate techniques developed in the context of fractal image coding for generalizing block-matching algorithms as used in motion-compensated video codecs. By allowing a gray value adaption (similar to non-iterative fractal techniques) within the block-matching process, we obtain MC error residuals with significantly lower entropy values as compared to pure block matching. This leads to a significantly improved rate/distortion performance for video sequences with illumination changes or high motion content at a low computational cost.
@article{HuUh00,
Author = {Hufnagl, C. and Uhl, A.},
Title = {Fractal Block-Matching in Motion-Compensated Video Coding},
Journal = {Fractals London},
Volume = {8},
Pages = {35--48},
Publisher = {World Scientific Publishing Company},
Year = {2000}
}