A novel macro-block group based AVS coding scheme for many-core processor

  • Zhenyu Wang*
  • , Luhong Liang
  • , Xianguo Zhang
  • , Jun Sun
  • , Debin Zhao
  • , Wen Gao
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The slice-level parallelism is popular in parallel video coding. However, the quality loses greatly because the dependency between macro-blocks is broken, especially on many-core platforms. To address this problem, a novel Macro-Block Group (MBG) decomposition scheme is presented for parallel AVS coding. In the proposed scheme, video frames are equally divided into rectangular MBG regions, each consists of more rows and less columns than the slice-level scheme. Since MBG is not supported by AVS, a vertical partitioning scheme is introduced, and the mode confining and MVD adjusting techniques are utilized to keep consistency with the standard. In practice, our parallel encoder is developed on the TILE64 platform, where P/B frames use the MBG-level parallelism and I frames use the macro-block-level parallelism. Experiments show that the proposed scheme can achieve a reduction of 52% (IPPP) and 41% (IBBP) in quality loss while keeping the same speed-up compared with the slice-level parallelism.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009 - 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Proceedings
Pages356-367
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2009 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 15 Dec 200918 Dec 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5879 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2009
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period15/12/0918/12/09

Keywords

  • Macro-block group
  • Many-core processor
  • Parallel video encoding

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