Scalable row-based parallel H.264 decoder on embedded multicore processors

• Published in: Signal, image and video processing Vol. 9; no. Suppl 1; pp. 57 - 71
• Main Authors: Baaklini, Elias, Rethinagiri, Santhosh, Sbeity, Hassan, Niar, Smail
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer London 01.12.2015; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Computer Imaging; Computer Science; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Multimedia Information Systems; Original Paper; Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Vision; Multimedia; Multicore processors; Parallel computing; Embedded systems; H.264/AVC standard; Video compression; Optimization

Multimedia applications are present in most mobile hand-held devices, which are still equipped with limited battery resources. The H.264 standard is currently dominating the video compression world. H.264 has high computational requirements in terms of memory, energy, and time. Many techniques emerg...