Improved motion compensation in the enhancement layer for spatially scalable video coding

This paper describes an efficient inter-layer motion compensation approach for enhancement layer prediction in spatially scalable video coding. The proposed approach provides improved performance compared to the current motion compensation scheme in the SVC standard. The improvement in performance is achieved by adding a new mode for enhancement layer motion compensation. Our experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an improvement up to about 1 dB in a two-layer spatially scalable framework compared to current SVC enhancement layer prediction.