A DSP based H.264/SVCdecoder for a multimedia terminal

Author

Pescador, F. ; Juarez, E. ; Raulet, M. ; Sanz, C.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Microelectron. Design Group (GDEM), Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Volume

57

Issue

2

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

705

Lastpage

712

Abstract

In this paper, the implementation of a DSP-based video decoder compliant with the H.264/SVC standard (14496-10 Annex G) is presented. A PC-based decoder implementation has been ported to a commercial DSP. Performance optimizations have been carried out improving the initial version performance about 40% and reaching real time for CIF sequences. Moreover, the performance has been characterized using H.264/SVC sequences with different kinds of scalabilities and different bitrates. This decoder will be the core of a multimedia terminal that will trade off energy against quality of experience.

Keywords

code standards; digital signal processing chips; multimedia communication; optimisation; video coding; CIF sequences; DSP based video decoder; H.26 standard; PC-based decoder; multimedia terminal; performance optimizations; quality of experience; scalable video coding; Decoding; Digital signal processing; Multimedia communication; Scalability; Spatial resolution; Static VAr compensators; Streaming media; DSP algorithm optimization; H.264/SVC; Scalable Video Coding; performance characterization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2011.5955211

Filename

5955211