Hardware assisted rate distortion optimization with embedded CABAC accelerator for the H.264 advanced video codec

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 590-597

  Nunez Yanez, José Luis ^a,b   Chouliaras, Vassilios A ^c   Alfonso, Daniele ^b   Rovati, Fabrizio S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arithmetic coding; CABAC; H.264; RDO; Video coding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECODING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE CODING; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMIC COMPLEXITY; ARITHMETIC CODING; VIDEO CODEC;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 33746954537     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2006.1649684     Document Type: Article

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