Accelerated MPEG Compression of Dynamic Polygonal Scenes

Authors

Dan S. Wallach

Sharma Kunapalli

Michael F. Cohen

Abstract

This paper describes a methodology for using the matrix-vector multiply and scan conversion hardware present in many graphics workstations to rapidly approximate the optical flow in a scene. The optical flow is a 2-dimensional vector field describing the on-screen motion of each pixel. An application of the optical flow to MPEG compression is described which results in improved compression with minimal overhead.

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Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 1994), July 1994

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