A High-Throughput Hardware Architecture for the H.264/AVC Half-Pixel Motion Estimation Targeting High-Definition Videos

Table 1

Results for the most complex variable block size configuration (16×16, 16×8, 8×16, 8×8, 8×4, 4×8, 4×4).

Video Sequence	PSNR (dB)	Bit-rate (Kbps)
Akiyo	40.82	114.5
Bridge Close	37.38	155.33
Coastguard	34.12	272.33
Foreman	36.47	207.87
Mobile	32.59	391.81
Average	36.28	228.37

FS algorithm, 32×32 search area, 1 past reference frame, quarter-pixel accuracy.