Antialiasing of interlaced video animation

ABSTRACT

The production of computer-generated video presents a number of difficulties not encountered with motion pictures. Interlaced scanning and the color subcarrier of NTSC video are responsible for special problems such as interline flicker, and chroma aliasing. As in motion pictures, temporal aliasing is also an issue. A renderer can sample and filter a moving image in an arbitrary manner and is not constrained to simply imitate the behavior of a television camera. This paper explores several different spatiotemporal antialiasing filters and how they affect the quality of video animation.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.3 Picture/Image Generation
          Subjects: Display algorithms

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.5 Computational Geometry and Object Modeling
          Subjects: Curve, surface, solid, and object representations
      I.3.7 Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism
          Subjects: Animation

General Terms:
Algorithms