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2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC using Programmable Graphics Hardware
Toronto, ON, Canada
July 09-July 12
ISBN: 1-4244-0366-7
Chi-wang Ho, Dept. of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Email: jodyho@ust.hk
Oscar Au, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Email: eeau@ust.hk
S.-h. Chan, Dept. of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Email: gchan@ust.hk
Shu-kei Yip, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Email: sukiyip@ust.hk
Hoi-ming Wong, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Email: hoimingw@ust.hk
We present an efficient implementation of motion estimation (ME) for H.264/AVC using programmable graphics hardware. The cost function for ME in H.264/AVC depends on the motion vector (MV) predictor which is the median MV of three neighboring coded blocks. Previous implementations assume no dependency among adjacent blocks, which is not true for H.264/AVC, they also perform unsatis-factorily because of their low arithmetic intensity, which is defined as operation per word transferred. To overcome the dependency problem, we introduce a new implementation which performs ME on block-by-block basis. Moreover, we can adjust the arithmetic intensity ity easily to optimize the performance on different graphics cards. Experimental results show that our implementation is substantially faster (by 10 times) than our SIMD optimized CPU implementation.
Citation:
Chi-wang Ho, Oscar Au, S.-h. Chan, Shu-kei Yip, Hoi-ming Wong, "Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC using Programmable Graphics Hardware," icme, pp.2049-2052, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006
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