EP1766996A1 - Procede et dispositif de densification de champ de mouvement - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and device for densifying the motion field between a source image and a destination image.
- the present invention is in the field of image processing in which points of a destination image must be associated with points of a source image.
- Some algorithms in the field of coding a sequence of digital images provide solutions for associating points between two images.
- These algorithms use motion-compensated temporal filtering by discrete wavelet decomposition. These algorithms first perform a wavelet temporal transformation between the images of the video image sequence and then spatially decompose the resulting temporal subbands. More precisely, the video image sequence is decomposed into two groups of images, the even images and the odd images, a motion field is estimated between each even image and the closest odd image or images used during the transformation. temporal wavelet. Even and odd images are compensated for movement with respect to each other iteratively in order to obtain temporal subbands. The iteration of this group creation and motion compensation process can be performed to generate different levels of wavelet transformation. The temporal images are then spatially filtered using wavelet analysis filters.
- the invention proposes a method for densifying a motion field between a destination image and a source image from a motion field between the source image and the destination image. characterized in that the method comprises the steps of:
- the invention relates to a device for densifying the motion field between a destination image and a source image from a motion field between the source image and the destination image, characterized in that the device comprises :
- the motion field is thus perfectly invertible and does not cause artifacts during the reconstruction of the image.
- the image at the decoder level of the client the densification of the motion field between a destination image and a source image is particularly suitable when the objects included in the images of the video image sequence are subjected to movements such as overturns in occlusions.
- the association space is determined by determining a working space in the destination image as a function of the pixels or sub-pixels connected to the pixels or sub-pixels adjacent to the pixel or sub-pixels.
- the pixel of the source image connected to the pixel or sub-pixel with which the workspace is associated and by determining the association space in the determined workspace from the pixel or sub-pixel with which it is associated workspace and from the pixels or sub-pixels connected to the neighboring pixels or sub-pixels of the pixel of the source image connected to the pixel or sub-pixel with which the workspace is associated.
- the association space is determined by determining, from among the pixel or sub-pixel with which the workspace is associated and the pixels or sub-pixels connected to the pixels or sub-pixels " neighbors of the pixel or sub-pixel of the source image connected to the pixel or sub-pixel with which the workspace is associated, the pixels or sub-pixels delimiting the workspace according to their coordinates in the image of destination and by determining the association space from the coordinates of the pixel or sub-pixel with which the work space is associated and the distances separating the pixel or sub-pixel with which the pixel workspace is associated or sub-pixel - Pixels delimiting the working space
- the densification of the motion field is performed quickly while allowing densification of the good quality motion field for coding and / or decoding of the video image sequence.
- the distances separating the pixel or sub-pixel with which the working space of the pixels or sub-pixels delimiting the working space are associated are weighted by a coefficient of the order of one half.
- the invention also relates to a motion compensated temporal filtering device of a video image sequence encoder characterized in that it comprises the motion field densification device according to the present invention.
- the invention also relates to a motion compensated inverse temporal filtering device of a video image sequence decoder, characterized in that it comprises the motion field densification device according to the present invention.
- the invention also relates to a signal comprising a sequence of video images encoded by discrete wavelet decomposition time-compensated motion filtering, the signal comprising high and low frequency images, the low frequency images are obtained by densifying the field of view.
- the densification is performed by determining connections between the pixels or subpixels of the source image and the pixels or subpixels of the destination image, by determining, for each pixel or subpixel of the destination image connected to a pixel or subpixel of the source image, an association space of the pixel or subpixel comprising at least one pixel and / or subpixel of the destination image and associating with each pixel or subpixel understood in the association space the pixel or subpixel of the source image connected to said pixel or subpixel to form a dense motion field between the destination image and the source image.
- the invention also relates to a method for transmitting a signal comprising a sequence of video images encoded by motion-compensated temporal filtering by discrete wavelet decomposition, the signal comprising high and low frequency images, the low frequency images are obtained by densifying the motion field between a source image of a source image group and a destination image of a destination image group from a motion field between the destination image and the source image, and wherein the densification is performed by determining connections between the pixels or subpixels of the source image and the pixels or subpixels of the destination image, determining for each pixel or sub-pixel of the destination image connected to a pixel or sub-pixel of the source image, an association space of the pixel or sub-pixel comprising at least one pixel and / or sub-pixel pixel of the destination image and associating with each pixel or subpixel included in the association space the pixel or subpixel of the source image connected to said pixel or sub-pixel to form a dense motion field between the destination image and the source image.
- the invention also relates to a method for storing a signal comprising a sequence of video images encoded by motion-compensated temporal filtering by discrete wavelet decomposition, the signal comprising high and low frequency images, the low frequency images are obtained by densifying the motion field between a source image of a source image group and a destination image of a destination image group from a motion field between the destination image and the image source, and wherein the densification is performed by determining connections between the pixels or subpixels of the source image and the pixels or subpixels of the destination image, determining, for each pixel or subpixel of the destination image connected to a pixel or sub-pixel of the source image, an association space of the pixel or sub-pixel comprising at least one pixel and / or sub-pixel of the destination image and in associating with each pixel or subpixel included in the association space the pixel or subpixel of the source image connected to said pixel or subpixel to form a dense motion field between the destination image and the source image.
- FIG. . 1 is a block diagram of a motion-compensated time-filtering video encoder using the mapping according to the invention
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the motion-compensated temporal filtering module of the video encoder of FIG. 1 using the mapping according to the invention when Haar filters are used in the wavelet decomposition;
- FIG. 3 represents a block diagram of a computing and / or telecommunication device capable of executing the matching algorithm according to the invention;
- FIG. 4 represents the matching algorithm according to the invention executed by a processor of a computing and / or telecommunication device;
- FIG. 5 is a simplified example of mapping pixels and subpixels of a destination segment to pixels or subpixels of a source segment;
- FIG. 6 shows a simplified example of mapping the other pixels and subpixels of the destination segment of FIG. 5 with pixels or subpixels of the source segment;
- FIG. 7 shows an example of mapping of pixels and subpixels of a destination image to pixels or subpixels of a source image
- FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a motion-compensated time-filtering video decoder using the mapping according to the invention
- FIG. 9 is a block diagram of the motion-compensated inverse time filtering module of a video decoder of FIG. 8 using the mapping according to the invention when Haar filters are used in the wavelet decomposition.
- Fig. 1 represents a block diagram of a time-compensated video filtering video encoder using the mapping according to the invention.
- the motion compensated temporal filtering video encoder 10 is adapted to encode a sequence of video images into a scalable data stream 18.
- a scalable data stream is a stream in which the data is arranged such that way that it is possible to transmit a representation, in resolution and / or quality of the image, variable according to the type of application receiving the data.
- the data included in this scalable data stream are coded in such a way as to ensure the transmission of video image sequences in a staggered or "scalable" manner in English terminology, both in quality and in resolution, without having to perform different codings. of the video image sequence.
- the motion compensated temporal filtering video encoder 10 comprises a motion compensated temporal filtering module 100.
- the motion compensated temporal filtering module 100 converts a group of N images into two groups of images, for example a group of (N). + l) / 2 low frequency images and a group of N / 2 high frequency images and transforms these images from a motion estimation made by a motion estimation module 11 of the time compensated video filtering coder movement 10.
- the motion estimation module 11 makes a motion estimation between each paired image denoted x 2 [m, n] and the previous odd image denoted xi [m, n], or possibly even the odd image of the next pair of the image sequence.
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 compensates for movement the paired image X 2 [m, n] so that time filtering is as efficient as possible. Indeed, the smaller the difference between a prediction of an image and the image, the more effectively it can be compressed, that is to say with a good compromise rate / distortion, or in an equivalent way, a good compression ratio on rebuild quality.
- the motion estimation module 11 calculates, for each pair of even and odd images, a motion field, for example and in a nonlimiting manner, by a mapping of blocks from an odd image to an even image.
- This technique is known by the Anglo-Saxon term "block matching". Good Of course, other techniques can be used such as, for example, mesh motion estimation technique.
- a mapping of some pixels of the even source image is performed with pixels of the odd image.
- the value of the movement of the block can be assigned to each pixel and to each sub-pixel of the block of the odd image.
- the weighted movement vector of the block as well as the weighted motion vectors of the neighboring blocks are assigned to each pixel of the block according to the technique known under the name OBMC (Overlapped Block Motion Compensation).
- the motion compensated temporal filtering module 100 performs a discrete wavelet decomposition of the compensated images to decompose the video image sequence into a plurality of frequency subbands distributed over one or more resolution levels. Discrete wavelet decomposition is applied recursively to the low frequency subbands of the temporal subbands until the desired decomposition level is reached. The decision module 12 of the motion-compensated temporal filtering video encoder 10 determines whether the desired decomposition level is reached or not.
- the different frequency sub-bands obtained by the motion compensated temporal filtering module 100 are transferred to the module for generating a scalable flow 13.
- the motion estimation module 11 transfers the motion estimates to the generation module.
- a scalable flow 13 which composes a scalable data stream 18 from the different frequency subbands and motion estimates.
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the motion-compensated temporal filtering module of the video encoder of FIG. 1 using the mapping according to the invention when Haar filters are used in the wavelet decomposition.
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 performs time filtering according to the technique known as "lifting". This technique makes it possible to carry out a simple, flexible and perfectly reversible filtering equivalent to a wavelet filtering.
- the source pair image x 2 [m, n] is oversampled by the over-sampling module 110 by performing for example a discrete wavelet transform or SDWT synthesis or by bilinear, bi-cubic or cardinal sinus interpolation.
- the image denoted x 2 [m, n] is transformed by the module of over- sampling 110 in an image x ' 2 [m', n '] having for example a quarter-pixel resolution.
- the source image is, for the part of the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 constituted by the modules 110 to 114, the pair image x 2 [m, n].
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 also comprises a connection module for the initial movements 121.
- the initial motion connection module 121 forms an image x'i [m ", n"] comprising at least four times more pixels than the image X 1 [Iu 3 Ii].
- the image x'l [m “, n”] is formed by interpolation of Xi [m, n] or by any other method and is associated with each pixel or sub-pixel of the image x'i [m ", n"], for example the movement vector of the block estimated by the motion estimation module 11 comprising these pixels.
- the destination image is, for the part of the motion compensated temporal filtering module 100, constituted by the modules 110 to 114, the odd image xi [m, n].
- pixel of the image x ' 2 [m', ii] a pixel of the image x ' 2 [m', n '] which has the same position as a pixel of the image x 2 [ m, n].
- sub-pixel of the image x ' 2 [m', n '] a pixel of the image x' 2 [m ', n'] which has been created by a synthesis DWT and / or a interpolation.
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 comprises a motion field densification module 112.
- the motion field densification module 111 associates with each of the pixels and sub-pixels of the destination image x'itm ",! at least one pixel of the source image x ' 2 [m', n '] from the connections established by the initial motion connection module 121.
- Shift is the value of a pixel or subpixel of the image X'a [m “, n"]
- Valsrc is the value of the pixel of the source image X2 '[m', n '] associated with the pixel or subpixel of the destination image x ' ⁇ m' ⁇ n "].
- the image Xa '[m", n "] is then filtered and downsampled by the subsampling module 113 so that it has the same resolution as the image x ⁇ n ⁇ n] .
- the subsampled image Xa '[m ", n”] is then subtracted from the image X ! [m, n] by the subtractor 114 to form an image denoted H [m, n] comprising high frequency components, the image H [m, n] is then transferred to the scalable data flow generation module 13 and the module synthesis 130.
- the source image is, for the portion of the motion compensated temporal filtering module 100 consisting of the modules 130 to 134, the image H [m, n].
- the source image H [m, n] is oversampled by the synthesis module 130 by performing for example an SDWT synthesis to generate an image H '[m', n '].
- the synthesis module 130 is identical to the synthesis module 110, it will not be further described.
- the motion field densification module 131 inverts the initial connections between x ⁇ m ' ⁇ n "] and X 2 '[m", n "] generated by the initial motion connection module to apply them between the image source H '[m', n '] and the destination image x 2 [m, n]
- the destination image is, for the part of the motion compensated temporal filtering module 100 made up of the modules 130 to 134, the image x 2 [m, n] or the image x 2 '[m ", n”]
- the motion field densification module 131 associates with each of the pixels and sub-pixels of the destination image x' 2 [m ", n”] at least one pixel or subpixel of the source image H '[m', n '] from the connections established by the initial motion connection module 121.
- the accumulation module 133 creates an accumulation image Xb '[m “, n"].
- the accumulation image Xb '[m “, n”] is of the same size as the destination image x 2 ' [m “, n”] and the value of each of its pixels and sub-pixels is equal a sum of the values of the pixels and sub-pixels of the source image H '[m', n '] associated with the corresponding pixel or sub-pixel in the image x' 2 [m ', n "], this sum being divided by the number of pixels and sub-pixels associated with the corresponding pixel or subpixel in the source image H '[m', n '].
- the image Xb '[m ", n”] is then filtered and downsampled by the sub-sampling module 133 so that the it has the same resolution as the image x 2 [m, n] .
- the subsampled image Xb '[m ", n”] is then added half to the image x 2 [m, n] by the adder 134 to form an image denoted L [m, n] comprising low frequency components
- the image L [m, n] is then transferred to the decision module 12.
- the image L [m, n] is then transferred from the decision module 12 of the motion-compensated time-filtering video encoder 10 to the scalable data flow generation module 13 when the desired resolution level is obtained or reprocessed by the time-compensated motion filtering module 100 for a new decomposition.
- the image L [m, n] is processed by the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 in the same manner as that previously described.
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 forms, for example when Haar filters are used, high and low frequency images of the form:
- Fig. 3 represents a block diagram of a computing and / or telecommunication device capable of executing the matching algorithm according to the invention.
- This computing and / or telecommunication device 30 is adapted to perform from a software program a temporal filtering compensated in motion on a sequence images.
- the device 30 is also able to execute the matching algorithm according to the invention.
- the device 30 is for example a microcomputer. It can also be integrated in a means for viewing video image sequences such as a television set or any other device for generating information sets intended for receiving terminals such as televisions, mobile telephones, etc.
- the device 30 comprises a communication bus 301 to which are connected a central unit 300, a read-only memory 302, a random access memory 303, a screen 304, a keyboard 305, a hard disk 308, a digital video disk player / recorder or DVD 309, a communication interface 306 with a telecommunication network.
- the hard disk 308 stores the program implementing the invention, as well as the data enabling coding and / or decoding according to the invention.
- This storage means is readable by a computer or a microprocessor 300.
- This storage means is integrated or not to the device, and can be removable.
- Fig. 4 represents the matching algorithm according to the invention executed by a processor of a computing and / or telecommunication device.
- step E400 the source and destination images are obtained. These images are in the context of a mapping, obtained by the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 of the video coder of FIG. 1, the source image H '[m', n '] and the destination image x' 2 [m ", n"].
- step E401 the motion field between the source and destination images is obtained and a projection thereof is performed in step E402 between the source image and the destination image.
- This projection is symbolized by the arrows between the source image and the destination image of FIGS. 5 and 6.
- Step E403 constitutes the beginning of the densification of the motion field performed for example by the densification module 131 of FIG. 2.
- the pixels or sub-pixels of the destination image on which the pixels or sub-pixels of the source image are projected by application of the motion field vectors symbolized by the arrows of Figs. 5 and 6, are connected to the pixels or sub-pixels of the source image.
- the pixels or sub-pixels B, C, E, F of the destination image are respectively connected to the pixels or subpixels X1 1, X12, X11 and X121 of the source image.
- the connections of the pixels or sub-pixels C and E are crossed. This is due to a flipping motion in this part of the image.
- Pixels or subpixels B "and
- the pixels A, B, C, D, E F and G of FIGS. 5 and 6 are pixels of the destination image.
- step E404 the iteration on the pixels and / or the sub-pixels of the source image is initialized and the first pixel or sub-pixel of the source image is considered, this pixel or sub-pixel noted as Ps is the pixel X 1 of the source image of FIG. 5.
- the pixel or subpixel of the destination image Pd noted connected to the pixel or subpixel Ps is determined.
- the pixel or subpixel Pd is in FIG. 5, the pixel B.
- the pixels or subpixels of the destination image connected to the pixels Ps1 and Ps2 are determined. It is the pixel E and the sub-pixel B "obtained by symmetry of the projection of the vector connecting Xl 1 to a pixel or subpixel of the destination image, these pixels or sub-pixels are denoted PdI and Pd2.
- step E408 a low pixel or subpixel denoted Pbas and a high subpixel or subpixel of the set consisting of pixels Pd1, Pd and Pd2 are determined.
- the pixel Phaut is the sub-pixel B "and the pixel Pbas is the pixel E.
- the part of the image between the pixel or sub-pixel Phaut and the pixel or subpixel Pbas is then considered as a workspace.
- the low boundary of an association space is defined from the workspace determined in step E408.
- the low border denoted Fcb is equal to the position of the pixel or subpixel Pd minus the distance Dbas weighted by a coefficient k.
- the upper boundary of the association space is defined.
- the high border denoted Fch is equal to the position of the pixel or subpixel Pd to which is added the distance Dhigh weighted by a coefficient k.
- the coefficient k is, according to a preferred embodiment, equal to the constant Vi. In an alternative embodiment, the coefficient k is equal to another positive constant.
- step E412 the association space denoted Fen in FIG. 5, delimited by the boundaries Fcb and Fch, is determined.
- the pixels and sub-pixels of the destination image included in the association space Fen are determined. According to the example of FIG. 5, the pixels and sub-pixels A, A ', B, B', C and C are included in the association space Fen.
- step E414 there is associated with each pixel and sub-pixel included in the association space the pixel or sub-pixel of the source image connected to the pixel or sub-pixel Pd.
- the pixels or sub-pixels A, A ', B, B', C and C are associated with the pixel or sub-pixel XI l.
- step E415 it is verified in step E415 if all the pixels and / or sub-pixels of the source image have been processed. If yes, the present algorithm stops. If not, the algorithm proceeds to the next step E416 of taking the next pixel or subpixel of the source image.
- the next pixel or subpixel is the pixel or subpixel denoted Xl I l.
- the loop consisting of steps E405 to E415 is repeated until all the pixels or sub-pixels of the source image have been processed.
- the pixel or sub-pixel Pd connected to X 11 is the pixel E
- the neighboring pixels or sub-pixels of X 11 are X 11 and X 12 respectively connected to B and C
- the determined pixel Pbas is the pixel Pd2E and the pixel or subpixel Phaut is the subpixel PdIE
- the distance Dbas is zero because E is both the pixel connected to X11 and the pixel Pbas
- the distance Dhaut is equal to six sub-pixels.
- the association space FenE in the case where k is equal to 1 A, is between the pixel E and three sub-pixels above E.
- the pixels and sub-pixels C, D, D 'and E are then associated with the subpixel Xl I l.
- the pixel Pd connected to X12 is the sub-pixel C
- the neighboring pixels or sub-pixels of X1 are X1I and X1 respectively connected to E and F.
- the pixel Pbas determined is the pixel Pd2C and the pixel Phaut is the subpixel PdIC
- the distance Dhaut is zero because C is both the subpixel connected to X12 and the subpixel Phaut
- the distance Dbas is equal to five subpixels.
- the association space FenC in the case where k is equal to Vi, is between the sub-pixel C and two and a half sub-pixels below C.
- the pixel Pd connected to X1 21 is the pixel F
- the neighboring pixel or sub-pixel of X1 is X1 connected to C
- the pixel Pbas determined is the pixel Pd2E and the pixel Phaut is the pixel or subpixel PdIF
- the distance Dhaut is equal to five sub-pixels
- the distance Dbas is equal to four sub-pixels
- all the pixels and sub-pixels of the destination image are associated with at least one pixel or sub-pixel of the source image.
- the field of motion is thus made perfectly invertible and this taking into account possible reversals of part of images.
- Fig. 7 shows an example of mapping of pixels and subpixels of a destination image to pixels of a source image.
- Fig. 7 represents an application of the algorithm of FIG. 4 in a two-dimensional case.
- the xs pixel of the source image is connected to a pixel xd of the destination image and adjacent pixels or sub-pixels xs1, xs2, xs3, xs4, xs5, xs6, xs7 and xs8 and which are connected to pixels or subpixels xd1, xd2, xd3, xd4, xd5, xd6 xd7 and xd8.
- the present invention is presented in connection with the use of Haar filters.
- Other filters such as filters known as 5/3 filters or 9/7 filters, are also used in the present invention. These filters use a larger number of source images to predict a destination image.
- the modules 110 to 114 of the motion-compensated temporal filtering module of the video encoder are modules for the prediction of a destination image
- the modules 130 to 134 of the time-compensated motion-compensating module of the video encoder are modules for updating a destination image.
- the coding devices as described in the present invention form for each pair consisting of a source image and the destination image an accumulation image in accordance with what has been presented previously. Each of these accumulation images is taken into account for predicting and / or updating the destination image.
- the accumulation image thus formed is then added to or subtracted from the destination image after possible weighting related to the facelift filtering coefficients.
- Fig. 8 is a block diagram of a motion-compensated time-filtering video decoder using the mapping according to the invention.
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering video decoder 60 is capable of decoding a scalable data stream 18 into a video image sequence 65, the data included in this scalable data stream having been coded by an encoder as described in FIG. 1.
- the motion-compensated time-filtering video decoder 60 comprises an analysis module 68 of the data stream 18.
- the analysis module 68 analyzes the data flow 18 and extracts each high-frequency image from each level of decomposition and that the image comprising the low frequency components of the lowest level of decomposition.
- the analysis module 68 transfers the images comprising the high frequency components 66 and low frequency 61 to the inverse motion compensated time filtering module 600.
- the analysis module 68 also extracts from the data stream 18 the different estimates of the motion fields made by the encoder 10 of the Fig. 1 and transfers them to the motion field storage module 61.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 iteratively transforms the high frequency image and the low frequency image to form an even image and an odd image corresponding to the higher decomposition low frequency image.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 forms a sequence of video images from the motion estimates stored in the module 61 and high and low frequency images. These motion estimates are estimates between each even image and the next odd image of the video image sequence encoded by the encoder 10 of the present invention.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 performs discrete wavelet synthesis of the images L [m, n] and H [m, n] to form a sequence of video images.
- the discrete wavelet synthesis is recursively applied to the low frequency images of the temporal subbands as long as the desired level of decomposition is not achieved.
- the decision module 62 of the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering video decoder 600 determines whether the desired decomposition level is reached or not.
- Fig. 9 shows a block diagram of the inverse temporal filtering module of a motion compensated video decoder of the "Fig. 8 using the mapping according to the invention when Haar filters are used in the wavelet decomposition.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 performs temporal filtering according to the "lifting" technique so as to reconstruct the different images of the sequence of video images encoded by the encoder of the present invention.
- the image H [m, n] or source image is oversampled by the oversampling module 610 to form an image H '[m', n '].
- the motion-compensated temporal filtering module 100 also includes an initial motion connection module 621, identical to the initial motion connection module 121 of FIG. 2, it will not be more described.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 comprises an inverse motion field densification module 612.
- the inverse motion field densification module 612 is identical to the motion field densification module 132 of FIG. 2, it will not be more described.
- the inverse motion compensated time filtering module 600 has an accumulation module 613 identical to the accumulation module 133 of FIG. 2, it will not be more described.
- the accumulation module 613 creates an accumulation image Xb '[m ", n"].
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 comprises a subsampling module 614 identical to the subsampling module 133; it will not be described further.
- the inverse motion-compensated temporal filtering module 600 comprises an adder 616 which half subtracts the filtered and subsampled image Xb '[m ", n"] from the image L [m, n] to form an even image. denoted X 2 [m, n].
- the image x 2 [m, n] or source image is oversampled by the oversampling module 630 to form an image x ' 2 ' [m ', n'].
- the synthesis module 630 is identical to the oversampling module 610 of FIG. 9, it will not be more described.
- the inverse motion compensated time filtering module 600 comprises a motion field densification module 632.
- the motion field densification module 632 is identical to the motion field densification module 111 of FIG. 2, it will not be more described.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 comprises an accumulation module 633 identical to the accumulation module 112 of FIG. 2, it will not be more described.
- the accumulation module 633 creates an accumulation image Xa '[m ", n"].
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 comprises a subsampling module 635 identical to the subsampling module 614, it will not be described further.
- the inverse motion compensated temporal filtering module 600 comprises an adder 636 which adds the filtered and subsampled image Xa '[m ", n"] to the image H [m, n] to form an odd image denoted xi [m, n
- the images xi [m, n] and x 2 [m, n] are, according to the desired decomposition level, interlaced to produce an image L [m, n] reintroduced on with the image H [m, n] of the same level, read in the stream of scalable data 18 in the inverse motion compensated time filtering module 600.
- the method and the densification device according to the present invention find multiple applications in fields other than that previously described.
- the method and the densification device are also applicable in the context of coders of video image sequences such as MPEG encoders and decoders 4 or encoders that use a predictive mode by motion compensation.
- coders of video image sequences such as MPEG encoders and decoders 4 or encoders that use a predictive mode by motion compensation.
- a bidirectional image is conventionally predicted from the previous image of the decoded video sequence in prediction or in intra.
- the use of the densification method or device in such a frame makes it possible to simply have direct and inverse motion fields between all the images of the video image sequence.
- Another example of application of the method and of the densification device according to the present invention is the rendering domain in the context of a synthetic scheme of objects represented in a surface manner in which it is necessary to project on a plane of image or make a polygon from a mesh surface.
- Such rendering is performed according to the present invention by considering a voxel rendering of variable size located at the nodes of the polygons, a voxel being a sphere in a three-dimensional space representing a ball contributing to the definition of a volume or a surface.
- the size of the voxels is defined by the size of the association space.
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