A complexity scalable H.264 decoder with downsizing capability for mobile devices

Hyeong Min Nam; Jae Yun Jeong; Keun Yung Byun; Jong Ok Kim; Sung Jea Ko

doi:10.1109/TCE.2010.5506035

A complexity scalable H.264 decoder with downsizing capability for mobile devices

Hyeong Min Nam, Jae Yun Jeong, Keun Yung Byun, Jong Ok Kim, Sung Jea Ko

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Abstract

It is significantly challenging to playback H.264 compressed video in real time on mobile devices with limited computing power. In this paper, we propose a complexity scalable H.264/AVC decoding algorithm with a downsizing capability, which can offer the complexity scalability by directly decoding the compressed video at a downsized resolution. In the proposed method, the predicted and residual signal can be generated in a downsized resolution by modifying the motion compensation (MC) and the inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT). As a result, the computational decoding load can be significantly reduced. Moreover, the proposed H.264 decoder can achieve the complexity scalability by adaptively discarding (or simplifying) redundant computations which have larger complexity but less effect on the video quality. Experimental results show that the decoding complexity can be reduced up to 43%, as compared to the conventional H.264/AVC decoder, while maintaining the acceptable video quality.

Original language	English
Article number	5506035
Pages (from-to)	1025-1033
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Volume	56
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2010.5506035
Publication status	Published - 2010 May

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Funding Information:
1This research was supported by Seoul Future Contents Convergence (SFCC) Cluster established by Seoul R&BD Program (No. 10570) and by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2009-0080547).

Keywords

H.264/AVC decoder
decoding complexity scalability
downscaling
inverse transform
motion compensation

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Media Technology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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