An efficient architecture of forward transforms and quantization for H. 264/AVC codecs

Abstract

Thanks to many novel coding tools, H. 264/AVC has become the most efficient video compression standard providing much better performance than previous standards. However, this standard comes with an extraordinary computational complexity and a huge memory access requirement, which make the hardware architecture design much more difficult and costly, especially for real-time applications. In the framework of H. 264 codec hardware architecture project, this paper presents an efficient architecture of Forward ...