Movement Compensated Interframe Prediction for NTSC Color TV Signals

This paper presents techniques for interframe prediction of color NTSC signals using motion estimation and compensation techniques. A key element in movement-compensated prediction is the displacement estimation algorithm. A number of techniques for performing this estimation have been presented in the literature 1-13. Some new techniques giving improved performance are presented in this paper. Also, a movement-compensated composite prediction approach for coding of the NTSC color signals is presented. The performance of different displacement estimation algorithms is evaluated and compared for both component and composite approaches. A database of several color NTSC video sequences is used in the evaluation.