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- EXTENSIONS
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-
- This is a list of things that we'd like to incorporate into the encoder.
- If you succeed in implementing any of them, please let us know!
-
- * better B-frame search technique
- * use DCT-space when computing error terms
- * vary the q-scale according to the error term
- * other motion vector search techniques
- * modify the program to have a finer-grained parallelism option -- we
- can probably encode slices in parallel (this will only be useful if we
- want to do a few B-frames using exhaustive search)
- * adhere to bit-rate requirements
- * include system layer
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- CREATING YOUR OWN MOTION SEARCH ROUTINES
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-
- Adding your own special motion search routine is very easy. We'll explain
- adding a P-frame search routine; adding a B-frame routine is similar.
-
- First, edit the procedures PMotionSearch and SetPSearchAlg (both in the
- file psearch.c) to recognize your new search routine. You probably want
- to define a constant
- PSEARCH_<your search name> in headers/search.h
-
- Have PMotionSearch call your search procedure just as it calls the other
- standard search procedures. Make sure your procedure follows the guidelines
- in the comments for PMotionSearch.
-
- Note: The encoder uses MAD as its search criterion. The reason for this:
- "Among the various criteria that can be used as a measure of the
- match between the two blocks, the mean absolute difference (MAD)
- is favored because it requires no multiplication and gives
- similar performance as the mean squared error (MSE)."
- - Liu and Zaccarin,
- "New Fast Algorithms for the Estimation of Block Motion Vectors,"
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- Volume 3 No. 2 (April 1993)
-