MediaBench II video: Expediting the next generation of video systems research

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5683, Issue , 2005, Pages 79-93

  Fritts, Jason E ^a   Steiling, Frederick W ^a   Tucek, Joseph A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Media processors; MediaBench; Multimedia benchmarks; Processor design; Workload evaluation

Indexed keywords

MEDIA PROCESSORS; MEDIABENCH; MULTIMEDIA BENCHMARKS; PROCESSOR DESIGN; WORLOAD EVALUATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MOTION PICTURES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 21844460839     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.587955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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