Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Historical background of interlace -- 1.2 De-interlacing -- 1.3 Relation with superresolution -- 1.4 Relation with MPEG-2 coding -- 1.5 Motivation and scope of this book -- Part I: Basic technology -- Chapter 2. Overview of de-interlacing algorithms -- 2.1 The de-interlacing problem -- 2.2 Non-motion-compensated de-interlacing -- 2.3 Motion-compensated de-interlacing -- 2.4 Evaluation -- 2.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Overview on motion estimation techniques -- 3.1 Historical developments in motion estimation -- 3.2 Pel-recursive estimators -- 3.3 Block-matching algorithms -- 3.4 True-motion estimation -- 3.5 Global motion models -- 3.6 Object based motion estimation -- 3.7 Evaluation of motion estimation methods -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Part II: System optimization -- Chapter 4. Accurate motion estimates from interlaced video -- 4.1 Accuracy of the motion vectors -- 4.2 Improving block-based motion estimation -- 4.3 Interpolation to improve the motion vector accuracy -- 4.4 Evaluation -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 5. On the optimization of de-interlacing -- 5.1 Evaluation of the performance on detailed images -- 5.2 Evaluation of the performance on edges -- 5.3 Evaluation of the robustness -- 5.4 The Majority-Selection de-interlacer -- 5.5 Evaluation -- 5.6 Conclusions -- Part III: The future of interlace -- Chapter 6. The efficiency of interlaced versus progressive video on a MPEG-2 digital channel -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Summary of the MPEG-2 video-coding standard -- 6.3 The experiments -- 6.4 Results and evaluation -- 6.5 Discussion -- Chapter 7. Towards an optimal display format -- 7.1 Display format options -- 7.2 Exploiting the source picture resolution -- 7.3 Evaluation -- 7.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Appendix A. Cycles perdegree and cycles per picture width -- Appendix B. Motion and alias -- Appendix C. Interpolation for sub-pixel de-interlacing -- Appendix D. Example: derivation of a 4 taps TGST filter -- Appendix E. Robustness of the TGST de-interlacer -- Appendix F. MS de-interlacer optimization for a programmable architecture -- F.1 TriMedia architecture -- F.2 Majority-Selection de-interlacer on the TriMedia -- F.3 Computational requirements -- References -- Glossary of special definitions, symbols and notations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Biography -- Index -- Last Page.