Programmable Stream Processors
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Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Spatial Scalability Within the H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding Extension
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Multithreading architecture for real-time MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 SVC decoder
PSIVT'11 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Image and Video Technology - Volume Part II
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Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is an advanced video compression technique that can support temporal, spatial, and quality scalability to terminals with different network conditions. SVC adopts layered coding techniques to improve coding efficiency for spatial and quality scalability. Upsampling and inter-layer prediction are two important mechanisms to remove redundant information between different layers. However, upsampling occupying around 75% memory bandwidth of SVC decoder results in serious performance degradation, especially for applications with high resolutions. Moreover, inter-layer prediction with complex scheduling leads to difficulties when mapping the SVC decoder in parallel. In this paper, we propose a method to parallelize the SVC decoder on a multi-core stream processor platform in both efficiency and flexibility. We focus on mapping issues of spatial scalability supporting with various resolutions of decoded frames. The experiment result proves the proposed design for SVC decoder reduces 95% memory bandwidth of the upsampling module in JSVM, performed on a single general-purpose processor.