Emerging Aspects in Electronic and Communication Engineering

Abstract

Abstract The H.264/AVC is known as the emerging video coding standard which provides better video quality at a lower bit-rate than the previous ones thanks to many advances in coding technology. These prominent techniques are applied to remove efficiently spatial and temporal redundancies. However, because many coding tools have been adopted it makes the encoding system much more complex, especially the inter-prediction part of the coding system. This paper presents an efficient VLSI implementation for Inter-Prediction in the H.264/AVC encoders with three key proposals: full search algorithm with bandwidth efficient technique, pipelining technique, and data reuse strategy. With this approach, the Inter-Prediction has been efficiently implemented with a low cost in terms of latency, hardware area and memory bandwidth.