Title
A highly parallel 4K real-time HEVC fractional motion estimation architecture for FPGA implementation
Date Issued
02 February 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
HEVC is the newest standard developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), mainly characterized by improving the encoding performance and efficiency in almost 50% of its predecessor, H.264/AVC for the same video quality. HEVC is also characterized for targeting Ultra High Definition (UHD) video streams e.g. 4k and 8k resolutions. These improvements resulted from the enhance of encoding processes complexity, which also brings the necessity of more computational resources for its implementation. One of the hot spots in HEVC Encoding is the Fractional Motion Estimation (FME) process, which significantly improves the video compression efficiency at the expense of 40-60% of encoding time in the ITU-T standard coding software. In order to optimize this processing time and make it suitable for Real-Time UHD Video applications, this work proposes a highly parallel Half and Quarter-Pixel Accurate FME architecture targeting FPGA devices. The architecture was described using VHDL and synthesized for the Altera Cyclone IV, V and Arria II FPGA families. The results established a maximum frequency of 298 MHz being able to process 4K (3840×2160) Video Streaming @38fps.
Start page
708
End page
711
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85015304088
ISBN
9781509061136
Resource of which it is part
2019 IEEE 10th Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems, LASCAS 2019 - Proceedings
ISBN of the container
978-150906113-6
DOI of the container
10.1109/ICECS.2016.7841300
Conference
2016 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2016
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