An adaptive bilateral motion estimation algorithm and its hardware architecture

Akın, Abdulkadir and Çetin, Mert and Erbağcı, Burak and Karakaya, Özgür and Hamzaoğlu, İlker (2010) An adaptive bilateral motion estimation algorithm and its hardware architecture. In: 18th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC), Madrid, Spain

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an adaptive bilateral motion estimation (Bi-ME) algorithm for frame rate up-conversion of High Definition (HD) video. The proposed algorithm can be used as a refinement step after a true motion estimation algorithm. It refines the motion vector field between successive frames by employing a spiral search pattern and by adaptively assigning weights to candidate search locations. In addition, we propose a high performance hardware architecture for implementing the proposed Bi-ME algorithm. The proposed hardware uses an efficient memory organization and a novel data reuse scheme in order to reduce the memory bandwidth and control overhead. The proposed hardware consumes 24% of the slices in a Xilinx 2V8000FF1517-5 FPGA. It can work at 107 MHz in the same FPGA and is capable of processing 124 1920x1080 full HD frames per second (fps), therefore doubling the frame rate to 248 fps.
Item Type: Papers in Conference Proceedings
Uncontrolled Keywords: Bilateral Motion Estimation; True Motion Estimation; Frame Rate Up-conversion; Hardware Implementation; FPGA
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7800-8360 Electronics > TK7885-7895 Computer engineering. Computer hardware
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7800-8360 Electronics
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Electronics
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: İlker Hamzaoğlu
Date Deposited: 01 Dec 2010 12:42
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 08:58
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/15576

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