Fuzzy-Based Motion Vector Smoothing for Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation

Vinh TRUONG QUANG  Sung-Hoon HONG  Young-Chul KIM  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E93-A   No.8   pp.1578-1581
Publication Date: 2010/08/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E93.A.1578
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Image
Keyword: 
fuzzy reasoning,  motion vector smoothing,  motion compensated frame interpolation,  motion estimation,  

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Summary: 
We proposed a new motion vector (MV) smoothing using fuzzy weighting and vector median filtering for frame rate up-conversion. A fuzzy reasoning system adjusts the weighting values based on the local characteristics of MV field including block difference and block boundary distortion. The fuzzy weighting removes the affect of outliers and irregular MVs from the MV smoothing process. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently correct wrong MVs and thus improve visual quality of the interpolated frames better than conventional methods.