Unconstrained motion compensated temporal filtering (UMCTF) framework for wavelet video coding

This paper presents a new framework for adaptive temporal filtering in wavelet interframe codecs, called the unconstrained motion compensated temporal filtering (UMCTF). This framework allows flexible and efficient temporal filtering by combining the best features of motion compensation, used in predictive coding, with the advantages of interframe scalable wavelet video coding schemes. UMCTF provides higher coding efficiency, improved visual quality and flexibility of temporal and spatial scalability, higher coding efficiency and lower decoding delay than conventional MCTF schemes. Furthermore, UMCTF can also be employed in alternative open-loop scalable coding frameworks using DCT for the texture coding.