MOTION VECTOR FIELD PROJECTION DEALING WITH COVERING AND UNCOVERING

摘要

The method for high efficiency video signal compression comprises: a) calculating a first motion vector field (MvI) at a temporal location (t3) of a third video picture (125) by using pixel data of a second video picture (123) and the third video picture; b) calculating a second motion vector field (Mv2) at a temporal location (t2) of the second video picture (123), in which second motion vector field (M v2) a foreground motion region (rFG2) composed of positions of foreground motion vectors, having a magnitude substantially equal to the motion of a foreground object (101), substantially collocates spatially with positions of pixels of the foreground object (101) and not with pixels of a background object (103, 103'); c) correcting erroneous foreground motion vectors (rERR) in an uncovering region of the first motion vector field (MvI) on the basis of the second motion vector field (Mv2); d) determining in a region (COV) of the first motion vector field corresponding to covering of background object pixels by the foreground object which of two vectors, projecting to a same spatial position in a future picture, is a foreground motion vector (vFG) and which is a background motion vector (vBG); e) projecting motion vectors of the first motion vector field to a temporal location (t4) of a fourth video picture (127) to be predicted, obtaining a third motion vector field (Mv3), comprising allocating a foreground motion vector (vFG) in the case of two vectors projecting to the same spatial position in the third motion vector field (Mv3); and f) predicting the fourth video picture (127) by using the third motion vector field (M v3) for determining positions of pixels to be fetched from at least one previous image (125).