JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING, vol.16, no.3, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
We combine predictive hexagonal pattern and partial distortion searches with the recently proposed constrained one-bit transform-based motion estimation scheme to reduce the computational load of the motion estimation process. Furthermore, the kernel used to obtain the one-bit images is simplified. Experimental results show significant reduction of the number of average search points, with only a slight loss in motion estimation accuracy. (c) 2007 SPIE and IS&T.