System perspective on embedded multimedia

Today´s user demand for multimedia has moved into an anywhere anytime paradigm. The ubiquitous usage model creates lots of needs for embedded multimedia system design, and traditional module-wise design concept will not suffice. In this talk, the system design view of modern VLSI architectures for multimedia applications, including H.264, scalable video coding (SVC) and stereo/3D video coding, will be reviewed. In addition, several emerging applications, where machine-to-machine and machine-to-human design factors also become important, like distributed video coding (DVC), free-viewpoint TV and intelligent image recognition, will also be introduced. With the growth of these embedded architecture researches, we can expect a fruitful future of multimedia ICs and systems.