Research Article

An Adaptive Motion Estimation Scheme for Video Coding

Table 4

Performance of the proposed algorithm compared.

Video sequence nameQPThe proposed algorithm compared to UMHexagonSThe proposed algorithm compared to NUMHexagonS
ME time
Gain (%)
Y PSNR
Gain (%)
Bits rate
Gain (%)
ME time
Gain (%)
Y PSNR
Gain (%)
Bits rate
Gain (%)

CREW28−25.85 −0.05 1.39 −14.65 −0.04 1.08
32−25.83 −0.03 1.53 −14.37 −0.02 1.28
36−26.76 −0.04 0.71 −15.04 0.11 0.38
40−28.52 −0.06 0.50 −16.81 −0.08 −0.08

HARBOUR28−26.24 −0.01 −0.10 −17.50 0.03 −0.05
32−24.60 −0.05 0.65 −16.53 0.03 0.40
36−22.26 −0.03 0.51 −15.17 −0.01 −0.08
40−21.20 −0.03 0.29 −14.33 0.09 0.63

ICE28−16.41 −0.10 1.54 −9.12 −0.03 0.98
32−17.52 0.01 1.51 −9.55 −0.09 1.14
36−18.15 −0.14 0.59 −10.08 0.06 0.88
40−17.89 −0.05 0.60 −8.91 −0.29 0.34

MOBILE28−21.23 −0.01 0.61 −11.78 −0.01 0.28
32−21.00 0.05 0.84 −11.62 0.03 0.78
36−21.30 −0.09 0.12 −11.92 −0.08 −0.37
40−21.65 −0.04 0.29 −12.25 0.00 0.43

CITY28−15.97 −0.05 0.17 −9.51 −0.05 −0.39
32−17.60 0.02 0.53 −10.11 0.05 0.37
36−18.64 0.01 0.16 −10.73 0.00 1.21
40−19.28 −0.04 0.07 −11.72 −0.06 0.58

COASTGUARD28−18.43 −0.08 −0.08−11.55−0.030.40
32−18.10 −0.04 −0.04−18.10−0.040.55
36−18.76 −0.04 −0.04−18.76−0.040.53
40−17.54 0.000.00−17.54 0.000.15