Scalable video compression via overcomplete motion compensated wavelet coding

Recently. there have been a flurry of works on overcomplete motion compensated wavelet coding (OMCWC). In this paper.. we address the importance of phase and focus on the design of scalable video coding algorithms within the OMCWC framework. Specifically, our new contributions consist of the following three components: (1) efficient block motion estimation techniques in the wavelet domain including hierarchical and fractional-pel block matching, (2) extend overcomplete motion compensated prediction (MCP) into overcomplete motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) to achieve temporal scalability (3) context modeling strategies for embedded quantization and entropy coding of 3D wavelet coefficients. Experiment results are used to demonstrate that the class of overomplete MCP/MCTF coders are capable of achieving comparable performance to other competing interframe wavelet coders. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.