VERFAHREN ZUR CODIERUNG UND DECODIERUNG VON BEWEGUNGSSCHÄTZUNGEN

摘要

The invention relates to a method of coding motion information associated to an image sequence, comprising the steps of subdividing each image into blocks and applying to each block a block-matching algorithm for defining a shifted block as the prediction of the current block, the motion vector between said shifted and current blocks being the predicted vector associated to said current block and all the motion vectors similarly predicted for a whole current image constituting a motion vector field associated to said current image. For each current image, the motion information constituted by said associated motion vector field is finally coded. According to the invention, the motion vector C to be coded is approximated by a spatio-temporal predictor P defined by a relation of the type: P=alpha.S+beta.T, where S and T are spatial and temporal predictors respectively, and (alpha, beta) are weighting coefficients respectively associated to said spatial and temporal predictors. The invention also relates to the corresponding decoding method.