Title :
Towards a comprehensive RVC VTL: A CAL description of an efficient AVC baseline encoder
Author :
Aman-Allah, Hussein ; Hanna, Ehab ; Maarouf, Karim ; Amer, Ihab
Author_Institution :
Lab. of Microelectron. Syst., EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
The video tool library (VTL) is one of the major normative components of the reconfigurable video coding (RVC) standard. It specifies the set of functional units (FUs) that may be interchangeably combined and connected to form different video codecs, with various compression performances and implementation complexities. In this paper, an efficient AVC baseline encoder that is described in CAL is introduced. The encoder is composed of many modules that also exist in other codecs of the same or different standards. This makes them highly reusable within the RVC framework. The main modules of the designed encoder include: Inter Prediction, Intra Prediction, and Entropy Coding. Brief descriptions of the designed modules, accompanied with CAL design issues are provided.
Keywords :
libraries; video coding; AVC baseline encoder; CAL description; RVC VTL; functional units; reconfigurable video coding; video tool library; Automatic voltage control; Code standards; Decoding; Entropy coding; Laboratories; Libraries; Motion compensation; Motion estimation; Video codecs; Video coding; AVC; CAL Actor Language; MPEG Video Tool Library; Reconfigurable Video Coding;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5653-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1522-4880
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414266