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Priority-Based Heading One Detector in H.264/AVC Decoding

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systemsvolume 2007, Article number: 060834 (2007) | Download Citation

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Abstract

A novel priority-based heading one detector for Exp-Golomb/CAVLC decoding of H.264/AVC is presented. It exploits the statistical distribution of input encoded codewords and adopts a nonuniform partition decoding scheme for the detector. Compared with a conventional design without power optimization, the power consumption can be reduced by more than 3 times while the performance is maintained and the design hardware cost does not increase. The proposed detector has successfully been verified and implemented in a complete H.264/AVC decoding system.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    • Ke Xu
    • , Chiu-Sing Choy
    • , Cheong-Fat Chan
    •  & Kong-Pang Pun

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Keywords

  • Power Consumption
  • Control Structure
  • Power Optimization
  • Electronic Circuit
  • Design Hardware