Xie, Dan

Sepiashvili, David

Kumar, Roger

It is the intention of our group to explore techiniques

in Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation. We will investigate

exisiting methods of Frame Interpolation and plan to develop

original techinques to implement Motion-Compensated Frame

Interpolation in real-time algoritihms.

As the midterm project, we will report on existing frame

interpolation methods. We also plan to demonstrate a few

software implementations of existing methods. In order to

achive this goal, we will modify currently existing

video playback software to display video at a given rate

(instead of playing in a best-effort manner).

The final goal of this group will be to implement our

algorithm for frame interpolation and to compare our method

with those existing in literature. Our hope is that our method

will outperform existing methods and will be implementable in a

real-time fashion (with a necessary playback delay of 1-5 frames).

Note: In this project we mainly develop client side components in

client/server application due to limited time. However,this project has

direct continuation, to develop server sidecomponents and expand client

side components to allow flexibleclient-server negotiation protocols,

which, in particular,will allow variable frame rate negotiation in a

middle of thevideo transmission. This, indeed, will require real-time

server-sidecodec or synchronization of multiple copies of a clip

recorded at different frame rates in order to allow difference coding of

neighboring frames with variable frame rate.