A versatile and scalable MIMD architecture for studio quality motion estimation

Author

Mombers, F. ; Dogimont, S. ; Mlynek, D. ; Garino, P.

Author_Institution

Integrated Syst. Center, Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1998

fDate

13-16 Sep 1998

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

318

Abstract

A novel architecture dedicated to perform motion estimation on MPEG3 CCIR 601 sequences is presented. The proposed MIMD architecture exposes software programmability at different levels allowing the user to define his/her own searching strategy and combine multiple chips in a master/slave configuration to meet the required processing power. A first implementation of this architecture tailored to perform a predictive Genetic Search Motion Estimation is reported

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; image processing equipment; image sequences; motion estimation; parallel architectures; video signal processing; MPEG3 CCIR 601 sequences; master/slave configuration; multiprocessor architecture; predictive genetic search motion estimation; scalable MIMD architecture; searching strategy; studio quality motion estimation; Computer architecture; Costs; Decoding; Energy consumption; Energy management; Frequency estimation; Laboratories; Motion estimation; Silicon; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASIC Conference 1998. Proceedings. Eleventh Annual IEEE International

Conference_Location

Rochester, NY

ISSN

1063-0988

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4980-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASIC.1998.723021

Filename

723021