Title : 
A flexible, line-based JPEG 2000 decoder for digital cinema
         
        
            Author : 
Descampe, A. ; Devaux, François
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Commun. & Remote Sensing Lab., Belgium
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The image compression standard JPEG 2000 proposes a large set of features, useful for today´s multimedia applications. Unfortunately, its complexity is greater than older standards. Real-time applications such as digital cinema requires a specific hardware implementation. In this paper, a decoding scheme is proposed with two main characteristics. Firstly, the complete scheme takes place in an FPGA without accessing any external memory, allowing integration in a secured system. Secondly, a customizable level of parallelization allows to satisfy a broad range of constraints, depending on the signal resolution.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cinematography; data compression; data encapsulation; decoding; field programmable gate arrays; image resolution; multimedia communication; video coding; FPGA; customizable level; decoding scheme; digital cinema; external memory; field programmable gate arrays; hardware implementation; image compression; line-based JPEG 2000 decoder; multimedia applications; parallelization; real-time applications; secured system; signal resolution; Decoding; Discrete wavelet transforms; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Image coding; Motion pictures; Scalability; Signal resolution; Tiles; Transform coding;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electrotechnical Conference, 2004. MELECON 2004. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Mediterranean
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8271-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MELCON.2004.1348272