@INPROCEEDINGS{1303Esche2011, AUTHOR = {Marko Esche and Andreas Krutz and Alexander Glantz and Thomas Sikora}, TITLE = {Temporal trajectory filtering for bi-directional predicted frames}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP2011)}, YEAR = {2011}, MONTH = sep, PUBLISHER = {IEEE}, PAGES = {1669--1672}, ORGANIZATION = {IEEE}, ADDRESS = {Brussels, Belgium}, NOTE = {IEEE catalog number: CFP11CIP-USB ISBN: 978-1-4577-1302-6}, PDF = {http://elvera.nue.tu-berlin.de/files/1303Esche2011.pdf}, ABSTRACT = {In this work the application of a temporal in-loop filtering approach for B-frames in video compression based on the Temporal Trajectory Filter (TTF) is investigated. The TTF constructs temporal pixel trajectories for individual image points in the P-frames of a video sequence, which can be utilized to improve the quality of the reconstructed frames used for prediction. It is shown, how this concept can be adapted to B-frames despite the fact that these already use temporal motion information to a great extent through the flexible choice of reference frames and prediction modes. The proposed filter has been integrated into the H.264/AVC encoder using the extended profile with hierarchical B-frames and was tested on a wide range of sequences. The filter produces bit rate reductions of up to -4\% with an average of -1.6\% over all tested sequences while also improving the subjective quality of the decoded video.} }