Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie

Georg Maier

Thomas Wiegand

Detlev Marpe

Heiko Schwarz

Benjamin Bross

Dan Grois

Robin Gruna

Thomas Längle

Uwe Hanebeck

Remco C Veltkamp

Beniamin Noack

Florian Pfaff

Michael Bromberger

Thomas Becker

Thomas LÄNGLE

Mario Kicherer

The invention relates to a method and a device for determining at least one mechanical property of at least one object, wherein the at least one object is subjected to at least one interaction which influences a movement state of the at least one object, wherein the at least one interaction is selected such that the movement state effectuated by the interaction is a function of the at least one mechanical property, wherein the at least one object is observed using at least one camera, wherein the movement state is determined from images recorded by the at least one camera and wherein the at least one mechanical property of the at least one object is determined from the movement state thus determined.

Method for determining at least one mechanical property of at least one object

The refinement of a lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector is made more effective by preceding the actual refinement with a determination of a context out of a set of context candidates based on coding costs of a set of lower-pel resolution vectors within a neighborhood of the lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector, wherein each context candidate is associated with a ranking among a set of higher-pel resolution candidate vectors surrounding the lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector. The actual refinement of the lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector to obtain the higher-pel resolution motion estimation vector may thus use the ranking associated with the context determined: sequentially arranged accordingly, the set of higher-pel resolution candidate vectors may be tested sequentially.

Refinement of a low-pel resolution motion estimation vector

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Georg Maier