A Quality Based Motion Estimation Criterion for Temporal Coding of Video

In video compression, motion compensation techniques are used for removal of temporal redundancy and it is the block based matching concept which is most popular among them. In such matching techniques, Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) is widely accepted as the matching criterion because of its simplicity and low computation. Since MAD considers only average error value in a block for matching purposes while ignoring individual difference between the pixels, the matching may not be more accurate. In this paper, a new block matching criterion is being suggested and is experimentally compared with two other matching criterions including MAD, using four parameters and the results are better for the proposed one.