Parallel H.264/AVC rate-distortion optimization baseline profile encoder on distributed share memory system

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4065-4075

  Wang, Jing Xin ^a   Chiu, Yung Chang ^a   Su, Alvin W Y ^a   Shieh, Ce Kuen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed shared memory system; H.264 AVC; Parallel video encoder ; Rate distortion optimization

Indexed keywords

BASELINE PROFILES; CODING EFFICIENCY; CODING MODE; CODING TOOLS; COMPRESSION PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATION TIME; DISTRIBUTED SHARE MEMORIES; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY SYSTEMS; DUAL CORE-PROCESSORS; ENCODER ARCHITECTURE; H.264/AVC; H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING STANDARD; MACRO BLOCK; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PROCESSING NODES; RATE DISTORTIONS; RATE-DISTORTION CURVES; RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION; REFERENCE DATA; SLOW MOTION; VIDEO ENCODER; VIDEO QUALITY;

CODES (SYMBOLS); ELECTRIC DISTORTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MOTION ESTIMATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863115745     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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