Highly efficient CAVLC encoder for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264

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In dealing with high-resolution video information, encoding (or decoding) with an efficient context-based adaptive variable length code (CAVLC) encoder is important. A highly efficient CAVLC encoder is proposed for video coding application of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. The main concept is to use block-based pipelining to speed up encoding efficiency and reduce the pipeline storage elements by using the associated input buffer. We also use zero-block detection to speed up encoding efficiency and eliminate the same codeword from all the tables to save the hardware cost. Simulation results show that our design can meet the real-time processing for 1920×1088 resolution with lower operation frequency. We also accomplish the higher encoding throughput with a more complete CAVLC design than others. The proposed design has been implemented and synthesised with TSMC 0.18 µm standard cell library. The synthesis result indicates that the gate count is 12 125 with the clock constraint of 125 MHz.

Inspec keywords: decoding; pipeline processing; code standards; block codes; adaptive codes; variable length codes; video coding; buffer storage; image resolution

Other keywords: video decoding; context-based adaptive variable length code encoder; high-resolution video information; buffer; block-based pipeline storage; video encoding; zero-block detection; video coding application; MPEG-4 AVC/H.264

Subjects: Image and video coding; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Video signal processing

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