Accelerating the multiple reference frames compensation in the H.264 video coder

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-65

  Hachicha, Khalil ^a   Faura, David ^a   Romain, Olivier ^a   Garda, Patrick ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

H.264 AVC; Markov random fields; Motion estimation; Multiple reference technique; Reduced computation mode

Indexed keywords

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CODING EFFICIENCIES; COMPUTATION RESOURCES; EMBEDDED MULTIMEDIAS; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; H.264 VIDEOS; H.264/AVC; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MULTIPLE REFERENCE TECHNIQUE; MULTIPLE-REFERENCE FRAMES; PROCESSING TIME; REDUCED COMPUTATION MODE; REFERENCE FRAMES; REPETITIVE MOTIONS; VIDEO CODING;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 59849116655     PISSN: 18618200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-008-0101-1     Document Type: Article

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