Methods and apparatus for efficient global motion compensation encoding and associated decoding

摘要

More efficient global motion compensation is provided by merging the warping processes performed in various global motion compensation (GMC) functions into a single warping process for use in GMC encoding and decoding operations. In an encoder in accordance with the invention, a global motion estimation processor is provided for performing global motion estimation (GME) on a picture. A mode decision processor is provided for selecting macroblocks (MBs) of the picture for GMC coding. A warping processor is provided for performing a single warping process for each pixel in the selected MBs for use in a plurality of GMC operations other than GME. A global motion compensation processor is provided for performing the GMC operations. Variable length encoding and texture coding is provided for encoding the picture to produce a GMC encoded bit stream.