Spatio-temporal filter for ROI video coding

Reallocating resources within a video sequence to the regions-of-interest increases the perceived quality at limited bandwidths. In this paper we combine a spatial filter with a temporal filter, which are both codec and standard independent. This spatio-temporal filter removes resources from both the motion vectors and the prediction error with a computational complexity lower than the spatial filter by itself. This decreases the bit rate by 30-50% compared to coding the original sequence using H.264. The released bits can be used by the codec to increase the PSNR of the ROI by 1.58 - 4.61 dB, which is larger than for the spatial and temporal filters by themselves.